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Lessons Learned from the 1981 Block-Grant Experience.(Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981)
The centerpiece of the Reagan administration's legislative agenda, the 1981 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA), consolidated 57 formerly categorical grant programs into nine new or revised block grants, and drastically reduced funding for these programs. (36) Although the 1981 block grants did not cause the disruption in social programs that some observers had predicted, neither did they achieve anticipated cost savings for either the federal government or the states. (37) The nation's experience with block grants during the 1980s may inform the current debate on the impact of converting Title X into a block grant.
OBRA gave states virtually unfettered ...
- Statistical Measurement of Block Grants Will be Tough
- Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered November 1, 1995 700+ words
...budget bill passes and block grants for welfare and Medicaid...of their massive budget reconciliation bills. The legislation...would give the states block grants of federal funds...with the kinds of block grants Congress now is envisioning...
- Debate to Begin Soon on Budget Reconciliation Bill
- Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition October 25, 1995 700+ words
...version of the budget reconciliation bill. BOB EDWARDS...wide-ranging budget reconciliation bill today amid...smaller Medicaid block grants than wealthier...of growth in the block grants for the well...
- OBRA payback trusts. (Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act)
- Magazine article from: The Exceptional Parent Varnet, Theresa October 1, 1996 700+ words
...In August of 1993, President Clinton signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (referred to as OBRA `93) which changed the Medicaid...opposed to Medicaid money coming to the states in the form of Block Grants. It is important that families not confuse the OBRA...
- PUT SOME STRINGS ON BLOCK GRANTS.(PERSPECTIVE)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) March 17, 1996 700+ words
...who've tracked block grants over the years...it. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 offered...of Reagan-backed block grants, and that probably...rules into those block grants, mostly in the form...
- "OBRA is beautiful public policy...." (Omnibus Budget Reconciliation...
- Magazine article from: Nursing Homes November 1, 1995 700+ words
...scenario is that resident protection will decline. It is clear, especially with Medicaid dollars probably decreasing if block grants are enacted, that the nursing home industry will fight the development or maintenance of state regulation. And, unfortunately...
- Spending and debt; Budget reconciliation is a must.(OPED)(POLITICS IN THE CITY)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times December 15, 2005 700+ words
...mandatory programs? Using the budget reconciliation process more regularly is one way...reformed this program in 1997 using budget reconciliation. But those changes in policy applied...spending restraint by using the budget reconciliation process on an annual basis. If...
- What budget reconciliation changed. (Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989;...
- Magazine article from: National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition Fossett, Alice W. Chandler, Darlene K. January 22, 1990 700+ words
What Budget Reconciliation Changed When the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 finally emerged from Congress, it did not...administrator and by the beneficiary. Significant changes by the Budget Reconciliation Act have e
- BUDGET RECONCILIATION BILL PASSES SENATE COMMITTEE
- Newspaper article from: The Journal Record DAVID TIPTON March 5, 1987 700+ words
...form of the Oklahoma budget reconciliation bill, which calls for...full Senate today. The budget reconciliation bill is designed to...urgent need to pass the budget reconciliation bill as quickly as possible...
