Block Granting Medicaid ─ A Model for 21st Century Health Reform?

"Edward Alan Miller identifies factors that either facilitated or impeded the design and implementation of Rhode Island's Global Consumer Choice Compact Medicaid Waiver in order to draw broader lessons for the Medicaid block grant debate and health and long-term care reform more generally. Evidence gathered from archival sources and in-depth interviews with key stakeholders exposes the role that provider capacity has played in the implementation process, including adult day care, assisted living, home maker, and other home- and community-based services"--

Edward Alan Miller is Associate Professor in the Departments of Gerontology and Public Policy and Fellow in the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston., and also Adjunct Associate Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Health Services, Policy and Practice at Brown University. He was recently named a Fellow of the Social Research, Policy and Practice Section of the Gerontological Society of America.