Policy & Regulation

The project examined how states have used Medicaid's Personal Care Services Optional Benefit (also called the PC Option), assessed whether coverage regulations for these services be revised, and discussed the ways in which the program might affect public debate about the expansion of public funding for long-term care.

This compendium is published by the Division of Children and Youth Policy within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It summarizes the results of the Division's research projects from 1986 through the present.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

When women who receive welfare benefits are compared with other women, both poor and non-poor, in the NLSY and other national sample surveys, welfare mothers are notably different from non-poor mothers. At the same time, these data show that there is considerable diversity within the welfare population.

Although the current difficulties in developing an adequate system of long-term care are extensive, they pale in comparison to the challenges ahead as the "baby boomers" come of age.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and EvaluationU.S. Department of Health and Human Services 1991 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/prodefes.pdf (26 PDF pages)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This report analyzed the Medicaid experience of children in California who had at least $25,000 in claims in 1983. The study analyzed their enrollment in claims experience over the period 1980-1986 in order to determine whether these children remain high cost over a number of years, and whether their eligibility changes over time. [35 PDF pages]

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The Disabled: Their Health Care and Health Insurance Michele Adler August 1990 PDF Version

This study investigates factors associated with changes in the child care arrangements of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients. To conduct the study, the authors interviewed a sample of AFDC recipients in 1984 and 1985, examined welfare case records, and developed models predicting AFDC mothers' transitions into and out of child care.