Podcasts Government The Week in Health Law 134. Another The Week in Medicaid. Guest, Jamila Michener.

134. Another The Week in Medicaid. Guest, Jamila Michener.

Published: April 6, 2018, 12:09 p.m.

A welcome to first-time Pod guest, political scientist Jamila Michener, a Professor in the department of Government at Cornell University. Her research focuses on poverty and racial inequality in American politics. She is the\xa0author of\xa0a new book, Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism and Unequal Politics\xa0(Cambridge University Press). We tackle Medicaid from her original perspective\u2014how and why federalism (not to mention Section 1115 waivers) allows for unequal treatment of Medicaid recipients across out nation, and some of the damage to democratic institutions that result.