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Medicaid & health

Medicaid, children's health insurance, and public health: care for people who cannot afford it.

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What the money shows

The government spent $1145.5B on Medicaid & health in 2025, which is 11.3% of all spending that year. Medicaid & health outlays are up 71.3% from 2017. OMB history lists Medicaid & health at 1.1% of federal outlays in 1962 and 11.3% in 2025. Department of Health and Human Services, the largest agency in this category, handles 77% of its latest outlay. The linked lobbying register category is Health & Pharma.

Sources: USAspending · OMB Historical Tables

$1.15T
Latest outlay
$11.26
Of each $100
+71%
Since FY2017
Health & Pharma
Mapped sector

Agencies spending it

Latest fiscal year, top agencies from USAspending.

Department of Health and Human Services$882B
Department of the Treasury$151B
Office of Personnel Management$95B
Department of Defense$13B
Department of Agriculture$1.5B
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund$1.2B
Department of Labor$1.0B
Department of the Interior$724M

Lobbying in this sector

Up to five leading health & pharma clients in the lobby register.

Share since 1962

OMB history plus live rows once ingested.

Bills moving money here

A sector-filtered doorway into the bills register.

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