In a new Commonwealth Fund issue brief, Medicaid expert Sara Rosenbaum and colleagues at George Washington University argue that abandoning the flexible financing approach of the past 50 years would divorce Medicaid funding from the real-life needs of low-income Americans.
In the brief, the authors examine how turning Medicaid into a block-grant program or imposing spending caps would likely affect eligibility, benefits, and states' ability to meet their low-income residents' health care needs.