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Building A Better Laboratory: The Federal Role In Promoting Health System Experimentation, Kristin Madison
Building A Better Laboratory: The Federal Role In Promoting Health System Experimentation, Kristin Madison
Pepperdine Law Review
While expanding federal involvement in the health care system, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) preserves states' roles as policy laboratories and private providers' roles as health care delivery laboratories. State-based and provider-based laboratories suffer from many shortcomings, however, as mechanisms to develop, evaluate, and facilitate diffusion of reforms within the health system. This Article argues that the federal government can take steps to address these shortcomings. It first briefly reviews ACA provisions that promote policy and delivery experimentation. It then suggests that by tying funding to policy outcomes, making use of regulatory variation and regulatory menus, and …
Employer-Based Health Care Insurance: Not So Exceptional After All, David Orentlicher
Employer-Based Health Care Insurance: Not So Exceptional After All, David Orentlicher
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The Future Of The Affordable Care Act: Protecting Economic Health More Than Physical Health?, David Orentlicher
The Future Of The Affordable Care Act: Protecting Economic Health More Than Physical Health?, David Orentlicher
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Health Care Reform And Efforts To Encourage Healthy Behavior By Individuals, David Orentlicher
Health Care Reform And Efforts To Encourage Healthy Behavior By Individuals, David Orentlicher
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Medicaid Expansion As Completion Of The Great Society, Nicole Huberfeld
Medicaid Expansion As Completion Of The Great Society, Nicole Huberfeld
Faculty Scholarship
A state’s decision whether to expand Medicaid has become a highly politicized issue, spawning countless news stories and on-going debate. However, this Essay takes a step back from that highly charged discourse and situates Medicaid expansion in its historical context. We reveal that this latest change universalizes the program, holding the power to finally realize President Johnson’s vision for the Great Society, almost fifty years later. Medicaid can be understood as a universal program for three reasons: (1) the percentage of thepopulation of children, pregnant women, and non-elderly adults it covers; (2) the degree to which Medicaid funds long-term care …