But it's a significant change to the convention that block grants come without strings attached.
Our guess is that President Obama's real objection to Medicaid block grants is political.
Block grants are wrong and states will wind up using the funds for other purposes.
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With finite block grants, states that innovate to reduce costs can keep the savings.
Mitt Romney has pledged to repeal Obamacare and institute block grants for Medicaid.
So, under Pierre Trudeau, the federal government introduced block grants, consolidating the federal contribution.
Per-capita caps are a form of block grants that were first proposed by Bill Clinton in 1995.
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To receive federal block grants from the NEA, a state must spend more money on the arts.
Block grants do very little to give states any more flexibility to experiment with healthcare delivery systems.
Block grants -- states, not the federal government, will decide how to dispense aid using limited federal funds.
The law also imposed some heavy reporting requirements on the states as a condition for receiving the block grants.
One of the key observations of the video is that Medicaid block grants would replicate the success of welfare reform.
Since 1996, the federal government has issued block grants to the states through the Temporary Assistance For Needy Family (TANF) program.
Limit Federal spending on these block grants to grow no faster than the rate of growth of GDP, producing enormous long-run savings.
Block grants would likely improve efficiency, but why even involve federal agencies?
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Block grants restore administration back to statehouses, but continue the programs nationwide.
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Block grants should not be used as a way for the Feds to evade the 10th Amendment and exercise power over the states.
Federal programs with matching funds to states (e.g. transit, Medicaid) should be eliminated or restructured as block grants as was done successfully with Welfare.
Instead of block grants, Medicare reform is based on something akin to vouchers, sort of like the health system available for Members of Congress.
The reforms provided instead for fixed, finite, block grants to the states, with broad state flexibility to adopt changes to get dependents out to work.
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The administration had earlier proposed providing temporary block grants to states to help cover the drug costs for elderly residents, but lawmakers rejected that plan.
Republican entitlement reform revolves around block grants from Washington to states.
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Mr. Obama's goal is to restore billions of dollars to community block grants, a key source of funding for cities, with the new office shepherding the disbursements.
The Department of Education can be sent back to the states with continued federal education assistance provided through block grants, consistent with the primary state role in education.
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That would include the Medicaid block grants and assistance for the purchase of private health insurance discussed above for those too poor to buy such health insurance on their own.
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Those block grants replaced the old federal matching funding formula with fixed finite funding that left the states responsible for 100% of increased spending, but gaining 100% from any savings.
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The key to the 1996 reforms was that the block grants to each state were finite, not matching, so the federal funding did not vary with the amount the state spent.
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We funded and awarded more than 1, 800 of the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants that you conceived -- flexible products that reduce energy use, put people back to work and save taxpayers' money.
What do you say to the poor and grassroots communities that benefit from these community block grants, as they also supported this President when he was then candidate Obama, as they believed he felt their pain?
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