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...Christopher Stream © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Lindblom, Charles. 1968 . The Policy Making Process . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. Commentary State Efforts to Expand Health Coverage: One...

... Should Expand Medicaid Austin B. Frakt VA Boston Healthcare System Aaron E. Carroll Indiana...

... could choose to establish or could defer to the federal government to operate. Expanding Medicaid to Americans below 138 percent of the federal poverty line was the primary motor for driving greater access; this group accounts for about two-thirds of the new population covered by the PPACA. But the US...

... individuals become aware of their eligibility due to the publicity surrounding the expansion, whether or not their state chose to expand Medicaid. Furthermore, focusing solely on the decision to implement the expansion fails to account for the fact that three states (California, Connecticut, and Minnesota...

... percent of Medicare fees during 2013–14. We conducted semistructured interviews with leaders in five of these states, as well as in three comparison states, to examine why they would continue a provision of the ACA that moderately expands access at significant state expense while rejecting the expansion...

...Joel C. Cantor Recent discussions on extending health insurance to the more than thirty million uninsured Americans have focused on two strategies: expanding the Medicaid program and mandating that employers sponsor coverage for their employees. This analysis, using a microsimulation model...

..., or employment status. Incorporating the “medically needy”—an ambiguous concept from the start—allowed states to include many different groups in Medicaid who are not traditionally thought of as poor. In addition, three structural features illuminate why the program has expanded and changed dramatically over...

...Jeffrey A. Buck; Mark S. Kamlet Many proposals for financing health care for the uninsured recommend expanding the Medicaid program. They often advocate extending Medicaid to all those under the poverty level and standardizing program benefits. However, the proposals have ignored important problems...

...Janet Heald Forlini; Felicia Cohn; Joanne Lynn Margaret P. Battin, Rosamond Rhodes, and Anita Silvers, eds. Physician-Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate . New York:Routledge, 1998. 463 pp. $75.00 cloth; $21.99 paper. © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Freeborn, N. In press...

..., marital status, and other restrictions. The federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act further limits the reach of state laws. Eligibility for expanded coverage under the ACA is much broader. Rules in some states requiring or allowing separate premiums for adult dependents may also discourage...

...Joseph W. Thompson; J. Craig Wilson; Andrew Allison; Mike Beebe Abstract The state of Arkansas is implementing a novel approach to expanding health care coverage for individuals newly eligible for Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Through a section 1115...

...Robin Flagg Abstract This is a study of why two seemingly similar governors made divergent decisions on expanding Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Performing a case study of Governors John Kasich (OH) and Scott Walker (WI), I explore the roles played by electoral...

...Colleen M. Grogan Abstract Medicaid's experience one decade after the passage of the Affordable Care Act represents extreme divergence across the American states in health care access and utilization, policy designs that either expand or restrict eligibility, and delivery model reforms. The past...

... lead the effort to expand health care coverage under the federal system is relevant in strategizing how to cover the uninsured; the more critical issues stem from the challenge of the mixed and fragmented mode of public-private financing of our pluralistic health care system. We base this argument...

...Erika Crable; David K. Jones; Alexander Y. Walley; Jacqueline Milton Hicks; Allyn Benintendi; Mari-Lynn Drainoni Abstract Context: In 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) urged state Medicaid programs to use 1115 waiver demonstrations to expand substance use treatment benefits...

... Media coverage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) focuses almost exclusively on expanded medical coverage, Medicare cuts, and lack of cost control. As a result, many other important provisions in the ACA have been lost from view. Essays in this section highlight those...

...Donald R. House Policy initiated in the 1970s follows the contention that competitive forces do not work and new types of regulation are warranted. This article presents an expanded demand-supply theory introducing patient waiting time as a component of full price. Equilibrium is reached through...

... and active learning. The article contributes to a literature that focuses on the effects of school yards and the role of physically active environments on learning. It expands on this literature by looking at the school-yard initiative as a way to build and expand relationships between teachers, parents...