Medicaid Reform, Responsiblization Policies, and the Synergism of Barriers to Low-income Health Seeking
| Autor: | Allison M. Baker, Linda M. Hunt, Isabel Montemayor, Hannah S. Bell, Kristan Elwell, Anna C. Martinez-Hume |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Economic growth
030504 nursing business.industry media_common.quotation_subject General Social Sciences Context (language use) Public relations Variety (cybernetics) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Anthropology Economics Cost sharing Incentive program Social inequality Moral responsibility 030212 general & internal medicine Ideology 0305 other medical science business Medicaid health care economics and organizations media_common |
| Zdroj: | Human Organization. 76:275-286 |
| ISSN: | 1938-3525 0018-7259 |
| Popis: | Many recent health reforms in the United States are imbued with neoliberal responsibilization rhetoric, which encourages individual responsibility and reduced dependency on the state. This ideology is evident in waiver-modified Medicaid expansion programs which include personal responsibility requirements such as increased cost sharing and behavioral incentive programs. In this article, we explore the limits of responsibilization rhetoric in the context of the lives of a group of Medicaid-qualified people in Michigan. We consider the health needs and challenges they face, how they view and respond to such notions of responsibility, and their access to healthy behavioral choices such as exercising, eating healthy foods, and seeing a doctor. We found that most already embraced a desire to take responsibility for their health, but due to the synergistic impact of a variety of barriers—notably unreliable and changing health insurance coverage, fluctuating low-wage employment, and limited access to health reso... |
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