Crowd-out and the politics of health reform

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 461-464

  Feder, Judith ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH INSURANCE; POLITICS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 4944240185     PISSN: 10731105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2004.tb00158.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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2. See, e.g., C. Howard, The Hidden Welfare State (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997); J. Hacker, The Divided Welfare State (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
3. Hacker, supra note 1; T. Jost, Disentitlement? (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003); J. Klein, For All These Rights, (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003).
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5. Hacker, supra note 1; T. Jost, Disentitlement? (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003); J. Klein, For All These Rights, (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003).
6. Medicaid also supplements Medicare for its low-income elderly and the later-added disabled beneficiaries and provides long-term care to those who satisfy eligibility and financial requirements.
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10. As of 2001 Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont, the Department of Health and Human Services had been granted waivers under section 1115 of the Social Security Act to cover childless, nondisabled adults. See The Medicaid Resource Book (Washington, D.C.: The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, 2002): at 16-17.
11. The Congressional Budget Office ultimately judged this employer mandate to constitute a "tax," though whether the public perceived it as such is an open question.
12. Medicare savings were dedicated to the proposal's prescription drug and long-term care benefits.
13. Although the Congressional Budget Office did not find these and other projected savings entirely sufficient to finance the program, its estimates came close (and indeed were achievable with modest adjustments to some of the proposed benefits and subsidies).
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15. For a discussion of this issue, see J. Feder, L. Levitt, E. O'Brien, and D. Rowland, "Assessing the Combination of Public Programs and Tax Credits," Covering the Uninsured, (Washington, D.C.: Economic and Social Research Institute, 2001).
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20. Feder et al, supra note 12.
21. Feder et al, supra note 12.