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Senator Brophy introduces SB 12-032: Medicaid block grants, vouchers, & premiums
For some of the merits of this bill, see my previous post on SB 12-032 and about Medicaid block grants in general. Continue reading
Colorado SB 12-060 – Improve Medicaid fraud prosecution
SB 12-060 attempts to reduce Medicaid fraud. The Depart. of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) has little incentive to reduce fraud, as for every CO tax dollar it spends, the Feds pay the HCPF a dollar taken from a taxpayer in another state. This is why replacing this matching this policy with a block grant would be an improvement. Continue reading
Colorado Senate Bill 12-032: Medicaid block grants, vouchers, & premiums
Sen. Greg Bropy’s Colorado Senate Bill 12-032 promotes three good Medicaid reforms: replacing federal matching funds with block grants, increasing co-pays and premiums, and turning Medicaid into a voucher program for (nominally) private insurance. Continue reading
Improving Medicaid with block grants & consumer-directed health care
If Medicaid were turned into a block grant program in which the federal government gave each state a set amount of money, it could improve patient care, restrain the growth in costs, reduce complexity and improve outcomes. Continue reading
Entitlement Bandits Rob Medicaid/Medicare
Giving Medicare enrollees vouchers for private insurance and block-granting Medicaid (as passed by the House of Representatives but defeated in the Senate) would reduce the crushing levels of fraud in Medicare and Medicaid. Continue reading
video: the case for federal Medicaid block grants
The Medicaid program imposes high costs while generating poor results. This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video explains how block grants, such as the one proposed by Congressman Paul Ryan, will save money and improve healthcare by giving states the freedom to innovate and compete. Continue reading
Paul Ryan’s Budget: A Huge Opportunity to Improve Health Care
Rep. Paul Ryan’s “budget blueprint that tackles the three big health care challenges facing the federal budget — ObamaCare, Medicare and Medicaid – with a strategy of repeal, vouchers and block grants. Done properly, those steps would simultaneously improve health care and help balance the budget within a decade.” Continue reading
Medicaid block grant saves Rhode Island $100 million
Instead of receiving open-ended Federal matching funds for spending its taxpayers’ money Rhode Island received a block grant. The state’s Rhode Island’s Secretary of Health & Human Services explains the benefits. Continue reading
Colorado Medicaid: replace matching funds with block grants
Replacing open-ended federal matching funds for state Medicaid spending would encourage fiscal restraint & reduce waste. Federal funding should be phased out, as money comes from states anyway. Keep the money in state. Continue reading
Colorado Medicaid reform: federal matching funds promote waste
When Medicaid & the Child’s Health Plan spend $1 from a Colorado taxpayer, the federal government gives them $1 taken from a taxpayer in another state. Program administrators are rewarded for spending more and punished for spending less. Replacing matching funds with block grants would remedy this. Continue reading