Competitive bidding and voucher payments for implementing the new federalism with special emphasis on programs for the aging.
Principles from the economics of decentralization are applied to the planning and budgeting of social services for the elderly. The standard model of corporate decentralized planning and budgeting is extended to allow different levels of government to pursue qualitatively different goals. A safety-net voucher plan is also proposed to protect the most vunerable population from possible termination of services due to poorly formulated local plans. Such a decentralized planning and budgeting system would make Federal and State influence on local plans proportional to their contribution to total expenditures.
D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002017:Budgets; D005376:Financial Management; D005380:Financing, Government / Q000379:methods; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D014481:United States