The features of this new salarysystem lie in:(1) Establishing an outstanding achievement-oriented salary designsystem, whose an important part isperformance wage and block grant.
It would convert Medicaid into a block-grant system, in a fashion similar to that of the spectacularly successful 1996 welfare reform law, giving states the flexibility to fashion programs that fit the needs of their residents.
The House has called for a block-grant system that would allow states to use their federal education dollars as they see fit, as long as they sign pledges guaranteeing that state test scores will demonstrate a steady curve upward.
Do you agree or disagree with converting the Medicaid program from the current system in which states and the federal government share oversight and funding responsibilities to a system of federal block grants to state governments, who would then decide how to allocate the grant funds to Medicaid recipients?