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Medicaid Budget Proposals Would Shift Costs to States and Be Likely to Cause Reductions in Health Coverage
Administration's Proposal Also Implies Cap on Federal Funding
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Leighton Ku,
Victoria Wachino,
Andy Schneider,
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities,
2/18/2005
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These reductions would have significant implications for the program’s ability to provide health care coverage to low-income uninsured Americans and for states’ ability to finance their share of program costs. Many states are struggling to fund their share of Medicaid costs. A number of states are responding by instituting changes that terminate coverage for groups of low-income beneficiaries (generally causing most such beneficiaries to become uninsured) or deny coverage for certain services that some beneficiaries — in some cases, those who are the sickest and require the most prescriptions or longest hospital stays — may need. Proposals that would shrink the federal government’s contribution to state Medicaid costs without reducing Medicaid costs themselves would shift financial burdens to states.
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Link to Report
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Ordering Information:
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
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The Health Beat by Maggie Mahar Blog
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A Second Opinion
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PublicAffairs,
The Century Foundation,
4/23/2007
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Medicare Tomorrow
The Century Foundation Task Force on Medicare Reform, Century Foundation Press
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