Medicaid Politics Federalism, Policy Durability, and Health Reform - Thompson, Frank J. 1944- (Georgetown University Press, 2012)
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; 1 Medicaid and the Health Care Crucible; 2 Dodging the Block Grant Bullet and Other Signs of Resilience; 3 Beyond Welfare Medicine: The Take-Up Challenge; 4 Government by Waiver: The Quest to Transform Long-Term Care; 5 Demonstration Waivers and the Politics of Reinvention; 6 Reform: The Politics of Polarization; 7 Durability, Federalism, and the Future of Medicaid; Appendixes; A: Medicaid Expenditures; B: Medicaid Enrollees; C: Medicaid Provisions of Key Debt Reduction Plans; References; Index; A; B.
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Medicaid, one of the largest federal programs in the United States, gives grants to states to provide health insurance for over 60 million low-income Americans. As private health insurance benefits have relentlessly eroded, the program has played an increasingly important role. Yet Medicaid?s prominence in the health care arena has come as a surprise. Many astute observers of the Medicaid debate have long claimed that?a program for the poor is a poor program? prone to erosion because it serves a stigmatized, politically weak clientele. Means-tested programs for the poor are often politically
Includes bibliographical references and index
Keywords: Medicaid; Health Policy / United States; Politics / United States; MEDICAL / Medicaid & Medicare; Medical policy; Politics, Practical; Medizin; Medical policy -- United States; Politics, Practical -- United States; USA