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Medicaid's Role for Children with Special Health Care Needs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Abstract

This commentary explores Medicaid's role for children with special health care needs today and considers how changes to Medicaid's federal financing structure under a per capita cap or block grant could affect coverage for these children.

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Symposium Articles
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2018

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