Public Welfare articles from March 1995

Public Welfare archives from March 1995

Medicaid and issues for health care reform. (includes related article)
March 22, 1995... Reformers could take a lesson from Medicaid. The sweeping and historic changes that came with last November's U.S. congressional elections seem to have quelled calls for reform of the nation's health care system. Or have they? To...

Managed care in Massachusetts.
March 22, 1995... Massachusetts's Medicaid waiver helped move its low-income population from a fee-for-service system to managed care. In 1991, national health reform leapt into the public consciousness. A national recession and worldwide economic trends...

Home and community care in Oregon. (includes related articles)
March 22, 1995... How one state began delivering services to people instead of moving people to services. Fifteen years ago, senior politics were bubbling in Oregon. Gray Panthers and other advocates for seniors were making news. Advocates were demanding...

A model for the future. (Benedictine Nursing Center, Mount Angel, Oregon)
March 22, 1995... Benedictine Nursing Center in Mount Angel, Oregon, may have been rated among the nation's six best nursing homes by Money magazine (November 1991), but it also happens to be on the cutting edge of nursing-home reform strategies that Oregon is...

Medicaid primary care: HMOs or fee-for-service? (health maintenance organizations)
March 22, 1995... Result from Wisconsin suggest that HMOs are more effective than free-for-service in primary and preventive health care. Medicaid programs across the nation are looking increasingly to managed care to contain spiraling costs. Nationwide, four...

Integrating health services to improve access.
March 22, 1995... Programs in Maryland and Virginia demonstrate how to overcome barriers to access. Unsuccessful attempts at health care reform over the past two years have focused on the lack of health insurance and the shortage of primary health care...

HCFA's Quality Assurance Reform Initiative. (Health Care Financing Administration)
March 22, 1995... QARI seeks to improve access and quality of care in Medicaid managed care. Today, 25 percent of all Medicaid recipients are enrolled in managed care--more than twice the percentage so enrolled in 1992--and nearly every state is working to...

When art imitates life: a look at art and drama therapy.
March 22, 1995... An innovative program affirms the therapeutic power of the arts to reach clients with mental retardation and developmental disabilities. Lights dim and the audience stills. Costumes and fans, movement and masks, rhythm and voice merge in...

Welfare by waiver: a response.
March 22, 1995... California responds to testimony critical of its Sections 1115 AFDC waiver. In its Winter 1995 issue, Public Welfare published the written testimony of 10 witnesses who appeared last September before the House Government Operations...