'Medicaid' definitions:
Definition of 'Medicaid'
(from WordNet)
noun
Health care for the needy; a federally and state-funded program
Definition of 'medicaid'
From: GCIDE
- medicaid \medicaid\ n. A program controlled by the United States government to provide health care for the needy. It is funded by contributions from the salaries of workers, and is therefore a form of health insurance. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
Synonyms of 'Medicaid'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ADC,
- aerospace medicine,
- biomedicine,
- clinical medicine,
- comparative medicine,
- constitutional medicine,
- cradle-to-grave security,
- dosimetric medicine,
- experimental medicine,
- guaranteed annual income,
- guaranteed income,
- health insurance,
- internal medicine,
- leechcraft,
- leechdom,
- legal medicine,
- materia medica,
- medical jurisprudence,
- Medicare,
- medicine,
- military medicine,
- naval medicine,
- neo-Hippocratic medicine,
- old-age assistance,
- physic,
- physical medicine,
- preclinical medicine,
- preventive medicine,
- psychosomatic medicine,
- public assistance,
- public health medicine,
- relief,
- sickness insurance,
- social insurance,
- social security,
- social welfare,
- socialized medicine,
- space medicine,
- state medicine,
- therapy,
- tropical medicine,
- unemployment compensation,
- unemployment insurance,
- veterinary medicine,
- welfare,
- welfare capitalism,
- welfare payments,
- welfare state,
- welfare statism,
- welfarism,
- womb-to-tomb security