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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
Georgetown University Press,
©2012.
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| Colección: | American governance and public policy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 273 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1589019350 9781589019355 |