Claim: About two-thirds of Medicaid beneficiaries are children, but they account for one-third of the program's cost, while one-third are elderly, and they account for two-thirds of the cost.
Fact-check: Sherrod Brown says elderly account for two-thirds of Medicaid's costs
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2011-05-12T00:00:00