Financing Health Coverage: The Fiscal Relief Experience


 

Publication Date: November 2005

Publisher: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

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Research Area: Health

Keywords: Medicaid Financing; Federal Intervention

Type: Brief

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

This paper provides an overview of the context which prompted federal fiscal relief to the states in 2003 and discusses the implications of this experiment in federal intervention for financing the Medicaid program.Â