Summary: This week we are joined by <a href="http://www.cbpp.org/matt-broaddus" target="_blank">Matt Broaddus</a> to talk about block granting Medicaid, which is a major health policy change that the Trump administration plans to pursue in the coming months. Matt is a Research Analyst in the Health Division at <a href="http://www.cbpp.org/" target="_blank">The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities</a>, a non-partisan research and policy institute in Washington DC. His policy, research, and analytical work is conducted in the areas of Medicaid and the State Child Health Insurance Programs.<br> We start with an overview of the Medicaid program, the largest insurance program in the US. We touch on the possible benefits of block granting (19:00), and how it may affect other industry stakeholders such as health systems, hospitals, community health centers, and insurers that offer Medicaid managed care products (23:20). Lastly we discuss another block granted program, CHIP and why many see it as a successful block grant program (29:00), and one other suggestion that has been made for Medicaid reform, per-capita funding (32:45).<br> You can find the article we mentioned by <a href="http://publichealth.gwu.edu/departments/health-policy-and-management/sara-rosenbaum" target="_blank">Sara Rosenbaum</a> <a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1503455#t=article" target="_blank">here</a>, as well as some additional resources on block grants from <a href="http://khn.org/news/block-grants-medicaid-faq/" target="_blank">Kaiser Health News</a> and <a href="http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2016/nov/medicaid-block-grants" target="_blank">The Commonwealth Fund</a>.<br> If you like the show, please rate and review us on itunes or stitcher, which makes the show easier for others to find; and share us on social media. We tweet at <a href="https://twitter.com/RoSpodcast" target="_blank">@rospodcast</a> and are on facebook at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/reviewofsystems" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/reviewofsystems</a>. Please drop us a line at <a href="mailto:contact@rospod.org">contact@rospod.org</a>. We’d love to hear from you.<br> Photo: President Lyndon B Johnson surrounded by supporters and advisors signing Medicare into law.<br>
