Friday, March 04, 2005

News Coverage of State Medicaid DevelopmentsA summary at the Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report - with many links to related news articles - of developments in the states related to Medicaid. States covered include Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Nevada, Tennessee and West Virginia. See also their related summary of opinion pieces appearing in US newspapers.  
  

Analyst: Bush Plan Saves Less on Medicaid AP story in the Las Vegas Sun - "Congress' top budget analyst estimates that President Bush's plans to slow spending for Medicaid and other benefits would save less money than the White House estimates, The Associated Press has learned. According to preliminary estimates by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Bush's proposals for trimming farm, veterans, student loans and other benefits would save $50.8 billion over the next five years. That's $11.1 billion, or 18 percent, less than the $62 billion in savings the White House estimated when Bush released his new budget last month. The re-estimate could complicate the Republican-run Congress' job of writing its own budget beginning next week. That is because it means budget writers will have to find even more savings than Bush proposed to achieve the same amount of deficit reduction he claims - a task many lawmakers will find painful..."