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Purchasing Health? The Promise And Limits Of Public Health Insurance, Kristen Underhill
Purchasing Health? The Promise And Limits Of Public Health Insurance, Kristen Underhill
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The 2010s have been a momentous decade for Medicaid. With enrollment of over seventy-two million people (19% of the country’s population), Medicaid is the nation’s largest public health insurance program, and it is the primary or sole source of health insurance for vulnerable groups such as low-income children and pregnant women, adults with disabilities, and people in need of long-term care. Since 2014, the pendulum of Medicaid policy has swung from an unprecedented expansion of coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), toward more recent federal regulations and state policy innovations that are instead predicted to limit uptake of benefits. …
Every Dollar Counts: In Defense Of The Obama Department Of Education's "Supplement Not Supplant" Proposal, James S. Liebman, Michael Mbikiwa
Every Dollar Counts: In Defense Of The Obama Department Of Education's "Supplement Not Supplant" Proposal, James S. Liebman, Michael Mbikiwa
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Evidence compellingly demonstrates – as Congress famously recognized in Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) – that children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds require more educational resources than other students. Yet, a half century later, many school districts still spend less money on high-poverty schools than on more privileged schools. In 2011, a study by the U.S. Department of Education discovered that nationwide, more than forty percent of schools eligible for Title I funding based on their high-poverty status receive less state and local funding for instructional and other personnel costs than non-Title I schools …