The Other Welfare: Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy. By Edward D. Berkowitz and Larry DeWitt. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. 296p. $45.00.

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“…The 1634 versus 209(b) options for Medicaid date back to the creation of SSI in 1972. States were given the option to adopt the new federal eligibility and benefit levels for SSI and Medicaid, or to offer eligibility and benefits at least as generous as what the state offered in 1972 (Berkowitz & DeWitt, 2013;Gurny et al, 1992). Since then, SSI Medicaid policies have remained largely static to the option states chose initially, likely due to both funding constraints and policy inertia.…”

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Effects of Medicaid Automatic Enrollment on Disparities in Insurance Coverage and Caregiver Burden for Children with Special Health Care Needs

Rennane

Dick

2022

Med Care Res Rev

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We analyze how Medicaid automatic enrollment policies for children with special health care needs (CSHCN) who are enrolled in Supplemental Security Income (SSI) reduce disparities in health insurance coverage and caregiving burden. Using the 2009–2010 National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs, we implement a difference-in-differences regression model comparing insurance enrollment rates between CSHCN receiving SSI and CSHCN not receiving SSI, in states with and without automatic enrollment policies. We find that Medicaid automatic enrollment has a meaningful impact on insurance enrollment for low-income CSHCN who participate in SSI and can be an effective method for mitigating disparities in insurance coverage (reducing uninsurance by 38%). Medicaid automatic enrollment also reduces caregiver burden among socioeconomically disadvantaged families with CSHCN. The effects of these policies are largest families who might be on the margin of eligibility or who face high administrative burden.

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Effects of Medicaid Automatic Enrollment on Disparities in Insurance Coverage and Caregiver Burden for Children with Special Health Care Needs

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2022

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“…In the United States, unemployment insurance schemes are run by states and are vulnerable to both state finances (often requiring federal loans in recessions) and state politics (such as cuts and administrative burdens made by Republicans who view them as welfare rather than insurance schemes) (Herd and Moynihan 2019). By contrast, social assistance for peoples with disabilities, Supplemental Security Income, is federal, and while that might theoretically produce some possible inefficiency, it is far more politically stable and sustainable because of the link to a federal social insurance program (Erkulwater 2006;Berkowitz and DeWitt 2013). Disability schemes everywhere tend to collect people who have experienced economic misfortune, often because their labor market and unemployment experiences contributed to ill health, but the greater generosity and more stable requirements of the federal programs might also help to explain their importance in the United States.…”

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Putting Federalism in Its Place

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supported the project that led to this and the earlier volume, Federalism and Social Policy. Theresa Ramirez and Connie Rockman supported that project with the generosity and competence they always show. Comments from Alan Trench, Janet Laible, and Margitta Mätzke on the initial development of this project were very helpful. Finally, the University of Michigan Press, especially Elizabeth Demers, Kevin Rennells, and Haley Winkle, were the combination of supportive, engaged, tough, and patient that authors always appreciate. CHAPTER 1Why Should We Care about Federalism?In Texarkana there is an unusual building. As its name suggests, the town straddles the border between the U.S. states of Texas and Arkansas. The building stands along the border, half on each side. It is a U.S. federal government building, finished in 1933, that combines post offices and courts. The federal courts serving Texas are on the Texas side, and the federal courts serving Arkansas are on the Arkansas side. A post office, equally divided between the two states, serves both. The street splits to go around the building, with different pavement quality and parking rules on the two sides.That one building in a little-known railroad town is a metaphor for federalism. The states constitute the environment, but the federation constitutes the states. It is a legacy of specific political moments and policy decisions that there is a shared post office, serving the American people, in a unifying federal building that reinforces juridical divides between states in its very design. Perhaps it is telling that it is said (by the town's tourism bureau) to be the second most photographed federal building in the United States. It is of no significant architectural interest-except insofar as its location and its twinned courthouses inscribe federal politics in its stones. Letters mailed there since 1933 have been postmarked with a stamp that marks them as having been mailed in both states: "Texarkana-AR-TX" or "Texarkana, USA."The concrete complexity of a federal building in the American Cotton Belt belies much of what is written about federalism. Much research about the impact of federalism, or any other political or social institution, treats it as a binary variable, present or absent, and then look for its effects. Endless effort has been expended and endless ink spilled in scholarly and popular 1. More specifically, this book focuses primarily on federal countries located in Australasia, North America, and Western Europe, which does not mean the lessons it draws are not applicable to federal countries located outside the Global North, such as Argentina,

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The Other Welfare: Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy. By Edward D. Berkowitz and Larry DeWitt. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. 296p. $45.00.

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Effects of Medicaid Automatic Enrollment on Disparities in Insurance Coverage and Caregiver Burden for Children with Special Health Care Needs

Effects of Medicaid Automatic Enrollment on Disparities in Insurance Coverage and Caregiver Burden for Children with Special Health Care Needs

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