Why States Are So Miffed about Medicaid — Economics, Politics, and the “Woodwork Effect”
Author(s) -
Benjamin D. Sommers,
Arnold M. Epstein
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmp1104948
Subject(s) - medicaid , legislation , government (linguistics) , politics , medicine , state government , patient protection and affordable care act , health insurance , public administration , public economics , law , political science , health care , economics , local government , philosophy , linguistics
Although the Affordable Care Act requires the federal government to fund most of the cost of the 2014 Medicaid expansion, other features of the legislation render Medicaid a fiscal threat and administrative challenge for states whose budgets are already in dire straits.
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