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The Problem With Block Grants
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The Problem With Block Grants

Ira Stoll

Obscured amid the controversy over crowd size and the women's march that followed was the substantive policy at the heart of President Donald Trump's inaugural address.

That came in the language about "we are transferring power from Washington D.C., and giving it back to you, the people," and is being followed up with a reported congressional initiative to turn Medicaid, the federal healthcare program for the poor, into "block grants to the states."

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