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Posted Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EST - paffairs@urban.org ( Robert A. Berenson, Peter J. Pronovost, Harlan M. Krumholz)
There is a consensus that evaluating and reporting on the performance of health care providers can be instrumental in improving value in U.S. health care. But the growth of performance measurement has been accompanied by increasing concerns about the scientific rigor, transparency, and limitations...
Posted Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EST - paffairs@urban.org ( C. Eugene Steuerle)
Reform of the Social Security benefit structure should proceed on the basis of principles and goals related to adequacy, protections in old age, encouragement of work to protect the tax base on which programs like this depend, and equal justice under the law for those equally situated. Many...
Posted Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EST - paffairs@urban.org ( Kim Rueben)
In a contribution to the New York Times' Room for Debate, Kim Rueben argues if the tax rate for marijuana is too high, people will continue to buy weed from the guy on the street. However, setting the tax rate too low leaves revenue on the table and use might boom.
Posted Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 EST - paffairs@urban.org ( Fredric Blavin, Genevieve M. Kenney, Michael Huntress)
With ELE, a state's Medicaid and/or CHIP program can rely on another agency's eligibility findings to qualify children for public coverage. Using 2007 to 2011 quarterly enrollment data, we estimate difference-in-difference equations with quarter and state fixed effects to measure the effect of ELE...
Posted Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 EST - paffairs@urban.org ( Stan Dorn, Laura Wheaton, Paul Johnson, Lisa Dubay)
States expanding Medicaid eligibility under the ACA can substantially expedite Medicaid enrollment and retention for SNAP participants, 97 percent of whom will qualify for Medicaid, according to this study. Even in states where SNAP provides broad-based categorical eligibility that extends SNAPs...