Professors Sara Rosenbaum and Timothy Westmoreland have an interesting opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine with a curious response to the proposal that federal Medicaid funding should be re-structured as block grants (via the Patient CARE Act, proposed by some Congressional Republicans).
I’m no lawyer, but this seems to be a real stretch. Ms. Rosennbaum and Mr. Westmoreland misconstrue Medicaid as a federal-state “compact”, indicating the current Medicaid system is some kind of right that states can claim from Congress; and that Congress does not have the right to decide how federal money is spent.
Read the entire column at NCPA's Health Policy Blog.
Research and commentary from a former senior executive in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
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