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Federalism and Health Policy

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Foreword by Robert D. Reischauer

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1 Federalism and Health Policy: An Overview
John Holahan, Alan Weil, and Joshua M. Wiener

2 State and Federal Roles in Health Care: Rationales for Allocating Responsibilities
Randall R. Bovbjerg, Joshua M. Wiener, and Michael Housman

3 Health Care within the Larger State Budget
Donald J. Boyd

4 Variation in Health Insurance Coverage and Medical Expenditures: How Much Is Too Much?
John Holahan

5 States' Strategies for Tapping Federal Revenues: Implications and Consequences of Medicaid Maximization
Teresa A. Coughlin and Stephen Zuckerman

6 Leaders and Laggards in State Coverage Expansions
John Holahan and Mary Beth Pohl

7 Medicaid Managed Care: State Flexibility in Action
Robert E. Hurley and Stephen Zuckerman

8 Long-Term Care: Can the States Be the Engine of Reform?
Joshua M. Wiener and Jane Tilly

9 The State Children's Health Insurance Program: A New Approach to Federalism
Alan Weil and Ian Hill

10 Making Medicaid a National Program: Medicare as a Model
Marilyn Moon

11 Alternative Models of Federalism: Health Insurance Regulation and Patient Protection Laws
Randall R. Bovbjerg

12 Improving the Federal System of Health Care Coverage
Alan Weil, John Holahan, and Joshua M. Wiener

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Federalism and Health Policy, edited by John Holahan, Alan Weil, and Joshua M. Wiener, is available in paperback from the Urban Institute Press (6" x 9", 446 pages, ISBN 0-87766-716-0, $34.50). Order online or call (202) 261-5687; toll-free 800.537.5487.


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