Popular medicaid programs do battle with state budget pressures: Perspectives from twelve states

Health Affairs

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 143-154

  Hoadley, John F ^a   Cunningham, Peter ^b   McHugh, Megan ^c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR STUDYING HEALTH SYSTEM CHANGE   (United States)

^c MATHEMATICA POLICY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAID; REVIEW;

EID: 1842780030     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.23.2.143     Document Type: Review

References (19)

1. D.C. Ross and L. Cox, Preserving Recent Progress on Health Coverage for Children and Families: New Tensions Emerge (Washington: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, July 2003).
2. Ibid.; and D.J. Boyd, "The Bursting State Fiscal Bubble and State Medicaid Budgets," Health Affairs (Jan/Feb 2003): 46-61.
3. Ibid.; and D.J. Boyd, "The Bursting State Fiscal Bubble and State Medicaid Budgets," Health Affairs (Jan/Feb 2003): 46-61.
4. L.D. Brown and M.S. Sparer, "Poor Program's Progress: The Unanticipated Politics of Medicaid Policy," Health Affairs (Jan/Feb 2003): 38.
5. National Governors Association and National Association of State Budget Officers, "The Fiscal Survey of States" (Washington: NGA and NASBO, November 2002).
6. NGA and NASBO, "The Fiscal Survey of States" (Washington: NGA and NASBO, June 2003).
7. L.E. Felland and A.M. Benoit, Communities Play Key Role in Extending Public Health Insurance to Children, Issue Brief no. 44 (Washington: Center for Studying Health System Change, October 2001).
8. Such steps by safety-net providers were not a new development in response to the budget situation. Many providers had initiated efforts to become more efficient or diversify funding during the years when budgets were more flush. See L. Felland et al., The Health Care Safety Net: Money Matters but Savvy Leadership Counts (Washington: HSC, August 2003).
9. Brown and Sparer, "Poor Program's Progress."
10. A. Short et al., Population Growth, Economic Downturn Stress Phoenix's Health Care Capacity (Washington: HSC, Summer 2003).
11. J. James, "Rivaling State Budget Proposals Move Forward," Miami Herald, 17 April 2003.
12. Ross and Cox, Preserving Recent Progress; and A. Katz et al., HMOs Alive and Well in Orange County (Washington: HSC, Summer 2003).
13. Ross and Cox, Preserving Recent Progress; and A. Katz et al., HMOs Alive and Well in Orange County (Washington: HSC, Summer 2003).
14. C. Berthelsen and J. Wildermuth, "Governor Blames GOP for Cuts as His Recall Poll Numbers Worsen," San Francisco Chronicle, 3 August 2003.
15. V. Smith et al., States Respond to Fiscal Pressure: State Medicaid Spending Growth and Cost Containment in Fiscal Years 2003 and 2004: Results from a Fifty-State Survey (Washington: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, September 2003).
16. Ross and Cox, Preserving Recent Progress; and J. Fossett and C. Burke, Is Medicaid Retrenching? State Budgets and Medicaid Enrollment in 2002 (Albany: Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, February 2003).
17. Ross and Cox, Preserving Recent Progress; and J. Fossett and C. Burke, Is Medicaid Retrenching? State Budgets and Medicaid Enrollment in 2002 (Albany: Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, February 2003).
18. Ross and Cox, Preserving Recent Progress, 2.
19. R.J. Blendon, J.M. Benson, and C.M. DesRoches, "Americans' Views of the Uninsured: An Era for Hybrid Proposals," Health Affairs, 27 August 2003, content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.w3.405 (11 December 2003).