Tommy Thompson in No Apology, by Gov. Mitt Romney (R, MA)


On Health Care: Proposed block grants to states for all of Medicaid

The Bush administration's then secretary of health and human services Tommy Thompson proposed a straightforward and uncomplicated plan to fix the Medicaid program. Appearing at the annual governors' conference, he proposed that each state annually be given the Medicaid dollars it had received during the prior year, adjusted for inflation and changes in the state's population of the poor. The state would be allowed to fashion its health-care program for the poor as the state chose.

These distortions and inequities in Medicaid have become so severe that governors like me were willing to trade the federal government's open checkbook for the ability to control our own state's program. We were convinced that we could save money and provide better care for more people who really needed it. Yet Congress rejected Thompson's plan. Since then, I haven't seen a better idea for fixing Medicaid come so close to becoming law.

Source: No Apology, by Mitt Romney, p.161-162 Mar 2, 2010

The above quotations are from No Apology:
The Case for American Greatness,
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