Medicaid and devolution
Subtitle: a view from the states
By: Frank J. Thompson and John J. DiIulio, Jr, editors.
Contributors: Thompson, Frank J.; DiIulio, John J.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Medicaid -- Management
Description: How much responsibility for providing health care to the poor should be devolved from the federal government to the states? Any answer to this critical policy question requires a careful assessment of the Medicaid program. Drawing on the insights of leading scholars and top state health care officials, this book analyzes the policy and management implications of various options for Medicaid devolution.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / John J. DiIulio, Jr. and Richard P. Nathan; title: The faces of devotion / Frank J. Thompson; title: Medicaid devolution : a fiscal perspective / Donald J. Boyd; title: Managed care and devolution / James W. Fossett; title: Safety net providers and the new medicaid : choices and challenges / Michael S. Sparer; title: Long-term care and devolution / Joshua M. Wiener; title: Who gets what? : devolution of eligibility and benefits in medicaid / James R. Tallon, Jr. and Lawrence D. Brown; title: Federalism and the medicaid challenge / Frank J. Thompson.