Medicaid
	n Title 19: 50 Different State Programs n Medicaid spends less than 1% of its payments on dental care n Sliding scale of payments to states or medical services to persons who qualified for public assistance programs for u Blind, aged,disabled u Families with dependent children n The act authorized matching funds for persons whose incomes while sufficient for normal purposes but were inadequate to cover medical services, a category of beneficiary known as the medically needy