Top U.S. states by number of Medicare beneficiaries 2017
This statistic depicts the leading 10 U.S. states based on their number of Medicare beneficiaries in 2017. In that year, California reported almost 6 million Medicare beneficiaries, and therefore was the U.S. state with the highest number of beneficiaries. Medicare is a U.S. publicly funded health insurance program that covers those that are aged 65 years and older and those that have certain disabilities.
