Medicaid and the limits of state health reform

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Acknowledgments; 1. The State Role in Health Care Reform: Why Do We Care?; 2. Congress Considers Health Reform; 3. Explaining Medicaid Variation; 4. The Medicaid Programs in New York and California; 5. Paying for the Institutionalized Aged: Lessons from Nursing Home Policy; 6. Alternatives to Institutionalization: Lessons from Home Care Policy; 7. Reducing the Cost of Hospital Care: Lessons from New York and California; 8. Moving Medicaid Clients into Managed Care; 9. States and the U.S. Health Care System; Notes; Index