1. Answer the following questions about Medicaid. What are the theoretical or causal either as advocated by policy proponents or as can be inferred from identifiable provisions of the policy or both between Medicaid and the problem it is meant to address?
a. What ideological assumptions are driving or justifying the purported or stated link between the targeted beneficiaries of the program?
b. Assess the relative merits of these justifications.
c. What can be gleaned from the assumptions about the cultural and political environment in which Medicaid was originally adopted and about contemporary society?
Based on these assumptions what changes if any would you propose to advance social and economic justice?
2. Discuss the differences between income and payroll taxes between progressive and regressive taxes and between earned income and non-earned income taxes in light of who is likely to pay them who to benefit from them and how they are likely to do so.
a. What changes in the tax code would you like to have Congress pass?
b. Discuss policies or programs that might benefit from greater private sources of financing than from public and vice versa.
c. Discuss policies or programs that might benefit from hybrid sources of funding such as might be suitable to social entrepreneurship or social impact bonds.
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