Medicaid politics :: federalism, policy durability, and health reform /

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 promin...

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1. Verfasser: Thompson, Frank J.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, ©2012.
Schriftenreihe:American governance and public policy.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 273 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1589019350
9781589019355

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