Tuesday, August 12, 2003

Report: State shorted on aid (California)
Sacramento Bee story - "California suffers under the formula used to calculate federal Medicaid payments, creating a funding gap that dramatically reduces the amount of medical help the state is able to offer the poor, according to a General Accounting Office report released Monday. The report was requested by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who pledged to work toward revising the nearly 40-year-old formula when Congress returns in September." See also the story Highlights Funding Ability Among States Often Are Widened (Adobe Acrobat) in the GAO Highlights newsletter and the full GAO report (also in Adobe Acrobat format).