We should then block-grant Medicaid back to the states, as we did with the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children program in 1996, reaping similar savings.

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Republicans should propose to block grant the entire Medicaid program back to the states, along with SCHIP, just as they did with the highly successful 1996 reforms of the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program.

FORBES: Peter Ferrara

The law creating Aid to Families with Dependent Children nowhere stated that all families defined as poor should be entitled to hand-outs.

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The whole point of the 1996 welfare reform law was to give states broad discretion in revising the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) welfare program.

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The old New Deal era Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) is now Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), which pays cash mostly to single mothers with children.

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The reforms include extending the enormously successful 1996 welfare reforms of just one federal program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), to all federal means tested welfare programs, nearly 200.

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Romney and Ryan propose to address Medicaid by extending to the program the enormously successful 1996 welfare reforms of the old, New Deal, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program.

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Thus the early years of the Clinton Administration (think of the unsuccessful health-care-reform plan) were devoted to clients and the later years (think of the elimination of Aid to Families with Dependent Children) to the public interest.

NEWYORKER: Evening the Odds

Those 1996 reforms changed the federal financing for the old, New Deal era, Aid to Families with Dependent Children program (AFDC) from a matching federal funding formula, which paid a state more the more it spent on the program.

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