Medicaid Expansion: A Tale of Two Governors

The Politics of Need: Examining Governors’ Decisions to Oppose the “Obamacare” Medicaid Expansion

This article explains governors’ decisions to support or oppose Medicaid expansions offered under the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. We theorize that governors’ decisions to oppose the funding should depend on both political demands and the level of need in the state, though politics and need are often in tension. We find that governors’ partisanship and the composition of the...

U.S. governors and the Medicaid expansion--no quick resolution in sight.

An Architectural Tale of the Two Cities

A comparative study of the corresponding styles of Western and Iranian modern architecture has hardly ever been carried out in detail. This paper aims to sketch out an outline for such an investigation and to present a summary of empirical evidence accompanied by field observations to elaborate the ongoing trend of relationship between architectural styles in Iran and that of the West. This is ...

A tale of two cities? The heterogeneous impact of Medicaid managed care.

Evaluating Accountable Care Organizations is difficult because there is a great deal of heterogeneity in terms of their reimbursement incentives and other programmatic features. We examine how variation in reimbursement incentives and administration among two Medicaid managed care plans impacts utilization and spending. We use a quasi-experimental approach exploiting the timing and county-speci...

A Tale of Two Cities? The Heterogeneous Impact of Medicaid Managed Care in Kentucky

Does managed care produce lower health care utilization and costs through better aligned financial incentives and alternative delivery methods (the “pure HMO” effect) or by attracting more healthy enrollees (plan endogeneity)? The purpose of this paper is to shed new light on this fundamental question using a quasi-experimental approach that exploits the timing and county specific implementatio...