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TennCare, One State's Experiment with Medicaid Expansion
Christina Juris Bennett
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Description for TennCare, One State's Experiment with Medicaid Expansion
Paperback. Num Pages: 241 pages, black & white tables, graphs. BIC Classification: KFFN; LNTM; MBN; VFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
A history of the struggle among competing stakeholders in one of the oldest and most controversial experiments in US health care policy, a precursor to Obamacare. In 1993, Tennessee launched a reform initiative designed to simultaneously expand the proportion of residents with health insurance and curtail cost increases. It was guided by principles that nearly match those that guided the creation of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Like the ACA, TennCare used corporations, rather than a single government payer, to implement the plan and it relied on a mix of managed care, market competition and government regulation.
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A history of the struggle among competing stakeholders in one of the oldest and most controversial experiments in US health care policy, a precursor to Obamacare. In 1993, Tennessee launched a reform initiative designed to simultaneously expand the proportion of residents with health insurance and curtail cost increases. It was guided by principles that nearly match those that guided the creation of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Like the ACA, TennCare used corporations, rather than a single government payer, to implement the plan and it relied on a mix of managed care, market competition and government regulation.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826520036
SKU
V9780826520036
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About Christina Juris Bennett
Christina Juris Bennett is an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Public Health. She is licensed as an attorney in Ohio and Tennessee, where for two years she was a judicial law clerk on the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals.
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