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The trade-offs between federal cost containment and state fiscal pressure in Medicaid funding
for undocumented immigrants reduce hospitals’ uncompensated emergency care by shifting routine deliveries and other acute but stabilizing services from charity to paid coverage in states that adopt th...
Medicaid operates as a joint federal–state program in which the federal government matches a large and variable share of state Medicaid spending, so shifts in state payments or enrollment rapidly chan...
is a jointly funded federal-state program in which taxes — both broad-based state taxes and specialized health care-related taxes — supply the nonfederal share that unlocks federal matching dollars; s...