Financing Medicaid Federalism and the Growth of America's Health Care Safety Net

Name: Financing Medicaid Federalism and the Growth of America's Health Care Safety Net
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ISBN: 9780472051977

ISBN-10: 0472051970

ISBN-13: 9780472051977

Edition: 2013

Authors: Shanna Rose

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Conventional wisdom holds that programs for the poor are vulnerable to instability and retrenchment. Medicaid, however, has grown into the nation’s largest intergovernmental grant program, accounting for nearly half of all federal funding to state and local governments. Medicaid’s generous open-ended federal matching grants have given governors a powerful incentive to mobilize on behalf of its maintenance and expansion, using methods ranging from lobbying and negotiation to creative financing mechanisms and waivers to maximize federal financial assistance. Perceiving federal retrenchment efforts as a threat to states’ finances, governors, through the powerful National Governors’…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 8/29/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 322
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Medicaid, Federalism, and Policy Feedback



The Birth of Medicaid: 1965



The Sleeping Giant Awakens: 1966-80



Retrenchment and Repudiation in the Reagan Era



Options and Mandates in the 1980s



Creative Financing Mechanisms in the Bush Era



Waivers in the Clinton Era



Block Grants and the 1994 Republican Revolution



Health Care Reform in the 2000s


Conclusion: The Future of Medicaid


Notes


Bibliography


Index