How will states “innovate” when it comes to Medicaid?

Aaron Carroll

April 20, 2012

The House budget reduces Medicaid funding and proposes to deliver it to states in block grants in an effort to get them to “innovate”. But what does that really mean?

I have a post-up at the JAMA Forum on this that I hope you’ll find worth your time. Go read!

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JAMA, Medicaid, states

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

How will states “innovate” when it comes to Medicaid?

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