Entitlement politics : medicare and medicaid, 1995-2001 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, David G., 1926-
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Aldine de Gruyter, [2002]
Series:Social institutions and social change.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Historical background. Medicare and Medicaid-initial legislation
  • Medicare : reform efforts
  • Medicare and the contemporary world
  • Medicaid : perennial issues and reform efforts
  • Medicaid and the Balanced Budget Act of 1995. Background and early moves
  • Budget resolution
  • Budget reconciliation
  • Medicare-1995. Preparing the way
  • Democrats counter
  • Medicare Preservation Act
  • Denouement
  • Year of transition-1996. Three-part reconciliation
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
  • Reflections
  • Medicare and Medicaid, 1997. Context of events in 1997
  • Budget resolution : setting strategic limits
  • Budget reconciliation
  • Conference
  • Some accomplishments
  • Implementation. Background
  • Medicare implementation
  • Medicaid and SCHIP
  • Design and construction
  • Old business and new. Managed care reform and Patients' Bills of Rights
  • Beyond the Balanced Budget Act : rhetoric and the future.