Campus News

Medicaid changes

A PharmacyChoice.com article about how block grants may impact the future of Medicaid quoted Elizabeth Weeks Leonard, associate professor of law.

“States are certainly capable of coming up with innovative, successful alternatives to the current federal requirements for providing health care to low-income individuals. Block grant waivers are certainly a realistic possibility,” she said. “So far, the Obama administration seems quite willing to entertain state experiments with various aspects of federal health reform implementation, including Medicaid expansion.”