The program is basically designed to provide insurance coverage for people who don't have an employer. Instead of states individually paying healthcare providers, more often than not, states are subcontracting those contracts to private insurance companies. Big names you've heard of, United Healthcare, Etna, as well as smaller regional health insurance plans take on these contracts and then they become this sort of fiduciary agent of the state in managing that program.

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