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Saturday, February 26, 2005
GOP Governors Push Back on Medicaid Cuts
Although the President and the Republican Congress seem poised to raid Medicaid funding, GOP Governors around the nation are not standing for it. The New York Times' Robert Pear reports:
Alarmed by soaring Medicaid costs, the nation's governors say they are enchanted with some of President Bush's proposals to restructure the program, but they adamantly oppose budget cuts sought by the White House and Republican leaders of Congress.Republicans standing up to the President? Perhaps it won't be so easy for the President and the Republican Congress to bilk money from the nation's poor after all...
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Republican governors, like Democrats, reject President Bush's proposals to cut back federal contributions to Medicaid, which is financed jointly by the federal government and the states, at a cost exceeding $300 billion a year.
"Simply cutting the Medicaid budget is unacceptable," said Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, a Republican who is vice chairman of the governors association. [emphasis added]
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