Documenting citizenship in medicaid: The struggle between ideology and evidence

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-28

  Ku, Leighton ^a   Pervez, Fouad ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIVIL RIGHTS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INSURANCE; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAID; MIGRATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT; POLITICS; UNITED STATES;

CIVIL RIGHTS; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; MEDICAID; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; POLITICS; STATE GOVERNMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77249085721     PISSN: 03616878     EISSN: 15271927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/03616878-2009-038     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Arnold, R. D. 1990. The Logic of Congressional Action. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
2. Blanton, D. 2005. Fox Poll: Illegal Immigration Seen as Serious Problem for U.S. May 3. www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155413,00.html.
3. Burghart, D., E. Ward, and L. Zeskind. 2007. Nativism in the House: A Report on the House Immigration Reform Caucus. Chicago: Center for New Community.
4. Calavita, K. 1996. The New Politics of Immigration: "Balanced Budget Conservatism" and the Symbolism of Proposition 187. Social Problems 43:284-305.
5. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). 2006a. Medicaid Program and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Payment Error Rate Measurement. Interim final rule. Federal Register 71, no. 166 (August 28): 51050.
6. -. 2006b. Medicaid Program; Citizenship Documentation Requirements. Interim final rule. Federal Register 71, no. 133 (July 12): 39214-39229.
7. -. 2006c. Payment Error Rate Measurement Pilot Project: Final Report. June 15. Baltimore: CMS.
8. -. 2007. Medicaid Program; Citizenship Documentation Requirements. Final rule. Federal Register 72, no. 134 (July 13): 38662-38697.
9. Cho, G. E. 2007. Representing Immigrants? The Influence of Public Opinion on Immigration and Legislators' Votes on Immigration Policy in the 109th Congress. Paper presented at the annual American Political Science Association meeting, Chicago, August 30.
10. Citrin, J., B. Reingold, E. Walters, and D. Green. 1990. The "Official English" Movement and the Symbolic Politics of Language in the United States. Western Political Quarterly 43:535-559.
11. Clarke, K. 2007. Burdening the Right to Vote: Assessing the Impact of Mandatory Photo Identification Requirements on Minority Voting Strength. Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy 13:9-16.
12. CNN. 2009. Homeland Security Chief Seeks to Repeal Real ID Act. April 22. www .cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/22/real.ID.debate/.
13. Condon, S. 2009. Senate Revisits Illegal Immigrant Health Care Question. Political Hotsheet, CBS News Blog. September 11. www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/ 11/ politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5303572.shtml.
14. Conlan, T., and J. Dinan. 2007. Federalism, the Bush Administration, and the Transformation of American Conservatism. Publius 37:279-303.
15. Daillard, C. 2002. New SCHIP Prenatal Care Rule Advances Fetal Rights at Low-Income Women's Expense. Guttmacher Report on Public Policy 5 (5): 3-5.
16. Deal, N. 2007. New Entitlement for Illegal Aliens: Oppose the CHAMP Act. E-mail sent to all members of the House of Representatives, July 30.
17. Drug Week. 2008. Merck to Pay More Than $650 Million to Resolve Claims of Fraudulent Price Reporting and Kickbacks, February 22.
18. Fording, R. 2003. Laboratories of Democracy or Symbolic Politics? In Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform, ed. S. Schram, J. Soss, and R. Fording, 72-100. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
19. Grady, A. 2007. Medicaid Citizenship Documentation. Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report for Congress. October 17. Washington, DC: CRS.
20. Greenstein, R. 2005. Comments on the National Governors Association's Medicaid Recommendations. June 15. Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
21. Guttman, V. 2003. Prenatal Care: Revisions to SCHIP Extend Health Care to "Unborn Children." Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 31:155-157.
22. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (Majority Staff). 2007. Medicaid Citizenship Documentation Requirements Deny Coverage to Citizens and Cost Taxpayers Millions. July 24. www.oversight.house.gov/documents /20070724110341.pdf.
23. Hulse, C. 2009. In Lawmaker's Outburst, a Rare Breach of Protocol. New York Times, September 10. www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/us/politics/10wilson. html.
24. Jackson, B., L. Robertson, D. Gore, and J. Henig. 2009. Obama's Health Care Speech. Factcheck.org, Annenberg Public Policy Center. September 16. www.factcheck .org/2009/09/obamas-health-care-speech.
25. Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. 2008. Medicaid: Overview and Impact of New Regulations. January. Washington, DC: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
26. Ku, L., and D. C. Ross. 2006. New Medicaid Requirement Is Unnecessary and Could Impede Citizens' Coverage, rev. ed. January 4. Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. (Orig. pub. November 9, 2005.)
27. Ku, L., D. C. Ross, and M. Broaddus. 2006. Survey Indicates Deficit Reduction Act Jeopardizes Medicaid Coverage for 3 to 5 Million U.S. Citizens. February 17. Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. (Orig. pub. January 26.)
28. Levitt, J. 2007. The Truth about Voter Fraud. New York: Brennan Center for Justice, New York School of Law.
29. Marcus, R. 2007. Attack Ads You'll Be Seeing. Washington Post, August 8.
30. Medicaid Commission. 2005. Medicaid Commission: Report to the Honorable Michael Leavitt, Department of Health and Human Services, and to the United States Congress. September 1. www.nasmd.org/resources/docs/reconcilliation.pdf.
31. Miller, G., and N. Schofield. 2008. The Transformation of the Republican and Democratic Party Coalitions in the United States. Perspectives on Politics 6:434-450.
32. Minnite, L. 2007. An Analysis of Voter Fraud in the United States. New York: Demos.
33. Moscoso, E. 2006. Bill Adds Citizen ID Test to Medicaid. Cox News Service. Oxford News (Ohio), January 19.
34. National Immigration Law Center. 2002. Guide to Immigrant Eligibility for Federal Programs. 4th ed. Los Angeles: National Immigration Law Center.
35. Norwood, C. 2005. Medicaid Recipients Must Prove U.S. Citizenship before Receiving Benefits. Press release, February 1. Quoted in Press 2006: 1040.
36. -. 2007. Healthcare. www.connectingtocongress.org/snapshot/www.house.gov/ norwood/issues.shtml (accessed July 2, 2008; page now discontinued).
37. Office of the Inspector General (OIG). 2005. Self-Declaration of U.S. Citizenship for Medicaid. Report no. OEI-02-03-00190. July. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General.
38. Office of Management and Budget. 2005. President's Budget for Fiscal Year 2006. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.
39. Orszag, P. R. 2007. Letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Congressional Budget Office. October 25. www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/87xx/doc8742/PelosiCitDocLetter10-25-07 .pdf.
40. Pierson, P. 1996. Dismantling the Welfare State? Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Retrenchment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
41. Press, J. 2006. Poor Law: The Deficit Reduction Act's Citizenship Documentation Requirement for Medicaid Eligibility. University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 8:1033-1058.
42. Reichard, J. 2005. Critics Say New Documentation Rules for Medicaid Would Reduce Enrollment. CQ HealthBeat, November 8.
43. Ross, D. C. 2007a. Medicaid Documentation Requirement Disproportionately Harms Non-Hispanics, New State Data Show. July 10. Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
44. -. 2007b. New Medicaid Citizenship Documentation Requirement Is Taking a Toll. March 12. Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
45. Ross, D. C., and I. Hill. 2003. Enrolling Eligible Children and Keeping Them Enrolled. Future of Children 13 (1): 81-97.
46. Schneider, A., and H. Ingram. 1997. Policy Design for Democracy. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
47. Sears, D., R. Lau, T. Tyler, and H. Allen. 1980. Self-Interest vs. Symbolic Politics in Policy Attitudes and Presidential Voting. American Political Science Review 74:670-684.
48. Shapiro, S. 1950. Development of Birth Registration and Birth Certificates in the United States. Population Studies 4:86-111.
49. Shin, P., B. Finnegan, L. Hughes, and S. Rosenbaum. 2007. An Initial Assessment of the Effects of Medicaid Documentation Requirements on Health Centers and Their Patients. Washington, DC: George Washington University Department of Health Policy.
50. Smith, D., and J. Moore. 2008. Medicaid: Politics and Policy, 1965 - 2007. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
51. Smith, D. G. 2006. Dear State Medicaid Director letter. CMS. SMD 06-012. June 9. www.cms.hhs.gov/smdl/downloads/SMD06012.pdf.
52. Smith, V., K. Gifford, E. Ellis, R. Rudowitz, M. O'Malley, and C. Marks. 2007. As Tough Times Wane, States Act to Improve Medicaid Coverage and Quality: Results from a 50-State Medicaid Budget Survey for State Fiscal Years 2007 and 2008. Washington, DC: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.
53. U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). 2007. Medicaid: States Reported That Citizenship Documentation Resulted in Enrollment Declines for Eligible Citizens and Posed Administrative Burdens. GAO-07-889 (June). Washington, DC: GAO.
54. Wachino, V., and R. Rudowitz. 2006. Key Issues and Opportunities: Implementing the New Medicaid Integrity Program. Washington, DC: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.
55. Wilson, J. 1989. Bureaucracy. New York: Basic Books.
56. Wolke, A. 2008. SCHIP Steers through Turbulent Waters. State Health Notes 29 (February 19). beta.ncsl.org/Default.aspx?TabId=14210.