What was the goal of medicaid? to provide healthcare to older citizens to provide healthcare to low income citizens to create educational opportunities for the less fortunate to provide financial assistance to retired americans

Option 2: To provide healthcare to low income citizens

Medicaid is one of the government-sponsored medical insurance of the United States, the other is Medicare. Medicaid aims to provide healthcare to eligible low-income citizens of all ages, and qualified non-citizens as well. It does so by helping them with medical costs (vaccines for children, lab and X-ray services, physical therapies, prescriptions, ambulances, and prenatal care, etc.) nursing home care, personal care services, such as doing meals, feeding, grooming, and toileting, among other activities.