US Insular Areas : Multiple Factors Affect Federal Healthcare Funding

Five insular areas of the U.S. -- Amer. Samoa, the Common. of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, & the U.S. Virgin Islands -- benefit from fed. health care financing & grant programs that help fund health care services to their over 4 million residents. However, notable diff. exist in how the programs are funded or operate in the insular areas, such as statutory limits on fed. Medicaid funding to the insular areas that do not apply in the states. To help understand these diff., this report identifies: the key sources of fed. health care funding in the insular areas; diff. between insular areas & the states in the methods used to allocate these funds; & diff. in spending levels per individual between insular areas & the states. Tables.Allen, Kathryn G. is the author of 'US Insular Areas : Multiple Factors Affect Federal Healthcare Funding', published 2006 under ISBN 9781422304594 and ISBN 1422304590.