Top experts explain everything you wanted to know about Medicaid—from federal-state financing to potential reforms Medicaid, originally considered an afterthought to Medicare, is today the largest health insurance provider in the United States. Under the Affordable Care Act, the Congressional Budget Office projects Medicaid enrollment to increase nearly 30 percent by 2024 and federal spending on the program to double over the next decade. For the states, Medicaid is already the largest single budget item, and its rapid growth threatens to further crowd out other spending priorities. In this collection of essays, nine experts discuss the escalating costs and consequences of a program that provides second-class health care at first-class costs. The authors begin with an explanation of Medicaid’s complex state-federal funding structure. Next, they examine how the system’s conflicting incentives discourage both cost savings and efficient care. The final chapters address the pros and cons of the most mainstream Medicaid reform proposals and offer alternative solutions. This book offers a timely assessment of how Medicaid works, its most problematic components, and how—or if—its current structure can be adequately reformed to provide quality care for those in need at sustainable costs. <ul>Contributors include: <li>Joseph Antos, American Enterprise Institute</li> <li>Charles Blahous, Mercatus Center at George Mason University</li> <li>Darcy Nikol Bryan, MD, practicing physician</li> <li>James C. Capretta, Ethics and Public Policy Center</li> <li>Robert F. Graboyes, Mercatus Center at George Mason University</li> <li>June O’Neill, Baruch College, CUNY</li> <li>Nina Owcharenko, Heritage Foundation</li> <li>Thomas Miller, American Enterprise Institute</li> </ul>

The Economics of Medicaid: Assessing the Costs and Consequences

Medical Books

Fichtner, Jason J.

Administration & Medicine Economics

Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Reforms to Improve Fairness, Efficiency and Economic Growth The most basic goal of tax policy is to raise enough revenue to meet the government’s spending requirements with the least impact on market behavior. But the United States’ tax code has long failed to meet this aim by severely distorting market decisions and the allocation of resources—hampering job creation and impeding both potential economic growth and potential tax revenue, while burdening Americans with up to $1 trillion dollars in compliance costs. This book sets a general framework for evaluating the societal benefits of any tax provision and presents key problems that exist with the tax code today. To increase employment and expand their economies, most developed countries are both reducing their corporate tax rates and restructuring their tax systems to make them simpler. The United States appears to be taking the opposite approach. While there appears to be widespread agreement on the need for tax reform, there is no consensus on specific elements of reform. This book shows that successful tax reform needs to be predictable, permanent, simple, efficient, and equitable. Reforms should include lower marginal tax rates, a broad base that eliminates loopholes, no double taxation, and reduces bad incentives. To move the debate forward, policymakers need to know the goals of successful tax reform and what steps to take to achieve those goals. This book provides that essential knowledge.

The Hidden Cost of Federal Tax Policy

Business & Money

Feldman, Jacob M.

Accounting

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