Health Policy, Federalism, and the American States

Abstract

Health care policy is an important issue in the ongoing debate about centralized versus decentralized government. This book illustrates how theories of federalism and intergovernmental relations can provide a useful framework for examining how to divide up the job of providing health care. It assesses the capacity of the states to actually implement health care policy changes and weighs the merits of alternative visions of the role of states and the federal government in health care policy.