Medicaid Block Grants and Medicaid Performance

Governments at all levels are facing severe fiscal stress, and Medicaid is the largest and fastest growing publicly-funded health program in the United States. State and federal authorities have had little success in controlling Medicaid expenditures with conventional reforms, and changing it from an entitlement program to a block grant program is now under discussion. This Issue Paper explores how transforming Medicaid into a block grant program offers the promise of improving patient care and restraining the growth in program costs.

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Colorado’s all-payer database poses serious risk, little gain

by Amy Oliver, Linda Gorman
Colorado state government, and local foundations and health policy elites, have become so ideologically invested in failed health reform policies that they now see nothing wrong with forcing Colorado citizens to give their medical records to a centralized repository, free from scrutiny by state auditors, open records requests and open meeting [...]

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Catholic university drops student health insurance, cites ObamaCare intolerance

A university responds to ObamaCare’s religious intolerance. Continue reading

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RAND Corp: High-deductible health plans could Save $57.1 Billion per Year

RAND Corp: “Growth Of Consumer-Directed Health Plans To One-Half Of All Employer-Sponsored Insurance Could Save $57 Billion Annually” Continue reading

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