Ideologies of Aid, Practices of Power
Lessons for Medicaid Managed Care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2478817 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nancy L Nelson |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 103-122 |
| Publication date | 2005-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0745-5194 • E-ISSN: 1548-1387 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/maq.2005.19.1.103 |
| PMID | 15789629 |
| OpenAlex | W2033712249 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 13 |
The articles in this special issue teach valuable lessons based on what happened in New Mexico with the shift to Medicaid managed care. By reframing these lessons in broader historical and cultural terms with reference to aid programs, we have the opportunity to learn a great deal more about the relationship between poverty, public policy, and ideology. Medicaid as a state and federal aid program in the United States and economic development programs as foreign aid provide useful analogies specifically because they exhibit a variety of parallel patterns. The increasing concatenation of corporate interests with state and nongovernmental interests in aid programs is ultimately producing a less centralized system of power and responsibility. This process of decentralization, however, is not undermining the sources of power behind aid efforts, although it does make the connections between intent, planning, and outcome less direct. Ultimately, the devolution of power produces many unintended consequences for aid policy. But it also reinforces the perspective that aid and the need for it are nonpolitical issues
Cognitive reframing · Decentralization · Devolution (biology · Economic growth · Economics · Health care · Ideology · Medicaid · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public relations · Sociology · State (computer science · Variety (cybernetics · International Development and Aid · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development · Law · Public Administration
Redistribution and its Discontents
Assessing the 2010 Affordable Care Act
The anthropology of health systems
Social and Economic Exchange Between Social Workers and their Employers in the Context of their Sectorial Affiliation and Seniority
Translating international health policies into lived realities
An ethnography of clinic "noise" in a community-based, promotora-centered mental health intervention
Freed from insurance
Do People Fail Drugs, or Do Drugs Fail People
Toward an Anthropology of Insurance and Health Reform
It Gets Better If You Do? Measuring Quality Care in Puerto Rico
Anti-Politics Machine
The Shadow Welfare State
Clintonism, Welfare, and the Antisocial Wage
How Managed Care Is Reinventing Medicaid and Other Public Health-Care Bureaucracies
The Anthropology of Welfare “Reform
Evaluating participatory development
The Politics of Development Policy Labelling
Clinician Experiences of Managed Mental Health Care
The Construction of Poverty and Homelessness in Us Cities
"Managing" the poor
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.48 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2022 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |