JLF Medicaid Solutions

The John Locke Foundation weighs in with respect to proposing solutions for North Carolina's enormous Medicaid problem.  It recommends:

• Changes to funding of long-term care
• Reducing optional services covered
• Changing to a system of federal block grants

Joe Coletti explains:

Comments

[DrMaryJohnson]

Briefly scanned because my time today is limited. Best I can tell, still not addressing entitlement - nor setting limits.

[Joe Guarino]

Mary, unfortunately the state cannot do much about eligibility because of legal changes passed by Obama within the last couple of years. I reported here recently some other ideas:

http://guarino.typepad.com/guarino/2011/03/how-north-carolina-can-limit-its-liabilities-under-medicaid.html