Search Results for middle-class incorporation

... Medicaid's reach into the middle class. This central political ideological tension collides with programmatic realities such that Medicaid strangely often suffers from a residual retrenchment politics while at the same time benefiting from embeddedness, making it extremely difficult to truly turn back...

... policy constituency middle-class incorporation conditionality of policy feedback effects prospections in policy feedback Health insurance exchanges will be created. . . . And when this exchange is up and running millions of people will get tax breaks to help them afford coverage, which...

...-income pregnant women and poor children to direct attention away from any residual negative connotations of “welfare.” In sum, Clinton sought to cast Medicaid as broad social enti- tlement that incorporated the middle class. Clinton’s strategy to reframe how Americans view Medicaid was not lost...

... coverage, the article offers broad lessons into the possibilities and limits of policy innovation within the health care arena. A key political goal of many US health care reformers is to incorporate not only the poor but also the middle class in government health insurance programs, not only...

...Ellen Meara Katherine Swartz. Reinsuring Health: Why More Middle-Class People Are Uninsured and What Government Can Do. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006. 203 pp. $24.95 cloth; $15.95 paper. Duke University Press 2008 Congressional Budget Office. 2005. The Price Sensitivity...

.... Books Katherine Swartz. Reinsuring Health: Why More Middle-Class Peo- ple Are Uninsured and What Government Can Do. New York: Rus- sell Sage Foundation, 2006. 203 pp. $24.95 cloth; $15.95 paper. Proposals to reform health care systems in the United States have earned a prominent position...

... of federal matching dollars for states, robust program defense among stakeholder groups, and the inclusion of more sympathetic and highly resourced constituencies such as the working poor and the middle class as beneficiaries beyond the low-income core. Some analysts explicitly used a policy feedback...

...: The Professor and the Middle Class. New Republic , 25 November, pp. 10 -15. Briggs , Philip . 1992 . A View from the Insurance Industry. In Social Insurance Issues for the Nineties (Proceedings of the Third Conference of the National Academy of Social Insurance), ed. Paul N. Van de Water. Dubuque, IA...

... to redistribute resources. If community boundaries are drawn to include the health-disadvantaged and the health- advantaged in the same jurisdiction, the extreme inequities described by McBride could force a drastic reallocation of funding from services that the middle class has come to expect...

... of Medicaid nurs- ing home patients were originally middle- or upper-middle-class private pay pa- tients who “spent down” to Medicaid over time. Thus, if these individuals could purchase private insurance or participate in some other long-term care financing mechanism, then both their impoverishment...

... analyses were not always the provenance of racists. But they could still be shot through with middle-class moralism. Du Bois's 1899 Philadelphia Negro , for example, did not escape fixations, prevalent in the settlement house movement, on nonnormative family structure and what Du Bois called the “laxity...

... the sale of the newspaper in some hospital gift shops. At the same time, UPMC—whose CEO was infamous for demanding steep increases to his $6.5 million salary—was in the middle of a war on its low-wage workers' efforts to unionize. One strategy the hospital system used in its National Labor Relations Board...

... effected belong to the class of infectious diseases, while of those diseases in which there has been increase in the mortality only one, pneumonia, belongs to that group.” To the public health officials writing the Annual Reviews 817 Report...

... likely to be poor, but their poverty was undeserved. Their very age made them victims of costly chronic and acute illness. The private health insurance market, just beginning to provide protection to organized workers and the middle class, had failed them. Their fam- ilies were burdened, often...

... HMOs are concentrating their AHCCCS enrollees in one of their facilities, in order to limit their exposure to middle-class clients, this also may simply reflect residential patterns. Overall, the established HMOs seem to be incorporating AHCCCS patients into their “mainstream.” More important...

... Budget. New York Times , 29 January, p. A10 . Petts , David . 1991 . Wofford and the Middle Class Squeeze. Polling Report, 2 December, Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard/KRC. Rovner , Julie . 1991 . “Pay or Play” Gains Momentum as Labor Panel Marks up Bill. Congressional Quarterly...

... interested in incorporating clinically driven value-based principles into plan benefit design (Richardson et al. 2019 ). The VBID X template proposes zero cost sharing for selected high-value services and generic drug classes as well as reduced cost sharing for select high-value branded drugs (see table 2...

... the success of recent Canadian pension reform in shifting the loyalties of the middle class from government policies that favor welfare recipients to those that benefit the wealthy. He points out that Canadians are being “weaned away from the postwar welfare state and incorporated into a new ‘welfare...

... who lack third-party coverage, modernizing the treatment system, developing new patterns of practice that use existing resources more efficiently, and developing a plan for treating intravenous drug users infected with the AIDS virus. In the private sector, the advent of working- and middle-class...

... be to create a program with the features that have made Medicare attractive to the middle class as well as the poor and kept costs per enrollee under control. As a result of the repeal of the individual mandate, enrollees might try to dart in and out of the program for coverage of large medical expenses...