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We can’t specifically predict atrocities such as occurred in Sandy Hook. Yet the Medicaid expansion in health reform is an important step in addressing violence by mentally-ill offenders.
Posts Tagged ‘Medicaid’
February 27th, 2013
Category: Affordable Care Act
The premise of my book Balancing the Budget is a Progressive Priority is that the most important long run budget issue is developing a set of health care cost controls that we will actually try. I frame a set of policies that I claim represent what a political deal between Democrats and Republicans would look [...]
February 12th, 2013
Category: Affordable Care Act
Word this morning that Gov. McCrory has decided that North Carolina will have a Federal ACA exchange, and that we will not undertake the Medicaid expansion now. Several quick points:
January 7th, 2013
Category: Uncategorized
I had the chance to interview the Urban Institute’s Howard Gleckman, one of the nation’s leading experts on disability policy and long-term care.
October 12th, 2012
Category: Affordable Care Act
It is a shame that the VP debate did not delve into the proposal of Gov. Romney and Rep. Ryan to block grant Medicaid in a way designed to greatly reduce federal spending on the program; this is where the most profound disagreements on health policy can be found in this election. Aaron Carroll and [...]
September 20th, 2012
Category: Affordable Care Act, Health Care
The Advisory Board has a new analysis of the impact on hospitals of the looming Medicare cuts that are a part of the Sequester. (h/t @ddiamond) Although most of the sequestration cuts target defense and domestic discretionary spending, the deal includes a 2% cut to Medicare payments. The OMB’s analysis suggests that number is equivalent [...]