Informal caregiving as state Medicaid expenditure: an only slightly immodest proposal.
States and Medicaid recipients would be better off if the federal Medicaid program allowed states to assign a dollar value to some unpaid care friends and family give to Medicaid recipients. The dollar value of this unpaid labor would then be counted as state spending in the calculation of federal match. The proposal, which would ease the pressure on tight state budgets, is entirely compatible with the recent federal-state compromise regarding provider taxes and donations and reinforces an important but overlooked Medicaid policy that cultivates and relies upon households to deliver care.
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Ohio State University College of Medicine.
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