And when a Democratic president proposed them, Waxman applauded per-capita reforms.
In the meantime, Democratic attempts to score political points by manufacturing fear of per-capita cap reforms not only are misguided, they are hypocritical.
No significant relation between GDP per capita and reform direction is found instead.
In a recent opinion piece for The Post, Waxman lambasted the idea of curbing federal spending on Medicaid by adopting a per-capita allotment reform.
In the 1990s, President Bill Clinton proposed putting federal Medicaid spending on a more sustainable path by adopting a per-capita cap reform.
Given the country's relatively high per capita GNI, its reforms seem to have yielded significant benefits (Table 1).
The accelerated growth of new doctors, in-state active doctors, high-risk specialists and doctors who provide direct patient care per capita all exceed pre-reform levels.
Under the guise of "reform," per capita caps and block grants designed to save the federal government money do so at the expense of vulnerable populations by shifting costs to states, beneficiaries and health care providers.
In a decade he has transformed the economy, tripling per capita income, introduced some rights reforms and reining in an army that had toppled four governments in 40 years.
At the Roman Catholic reform Council of Trent (1545 63) a new foundation for the further development of canon law was expressed in the Capita de reformatione ("Articles Concerning Reform"), which were discussed and accepted in 10 of the 25 sessions.
Originally, the deal included a substantial policy reform: a per capita limit, which would have helped to stem the programme's soaring costs.
