“Call it a beauty pageant for state Medicaid programs. Except that it’s extremely difficult to judge.”
“Yesterday, the Trump administration released what it’s calling a Medicaid “scorecard” that compares states side-by-side on 17 measures indicating the timeliness and quality of medical care received by enrollees and how well they’re faring under the insurance program for low-income Americans. The scorecard also includes data indicating how well the federal and state governments administer various components of the program….”
“But there’s a critical caveat here, one that isn’t necessarily the administration’s fault. Many of the data comparisons are apples-to-oranges…” Read the full article here.
Source: The Health 202: Trump administration rolls out a beauty pageant for Medicaid – By Paige Winfield Cunningham, June 5, 2018. The Washington Post.
