Jennifer Whitson of the Evansville Courier Press News has an article entitled State Urging Medicaid Changes. In it, she notes that there is an effort to cut Medicaid’s 10% growth rate in half. Medicaid constitutes a $1.4 billion per year expense to the state, or 12% of the state budget.
Senator Miller’s SB 292 died in her own committee. It would have given the Governor the authority to cut optional services (those not mandated by the federal government, but offered by the state of Indiana.) Senator Miller says that the idea would have been more popular had the bill specified the optional services that could be cut. However, the stuff that could be cut without much pain would also be the stuff that doesn’t cost much in the first place. Mitch Roob, head of FSSA, announced some ways to save, but I can’t say I understood what most of them meant. Sounded like bureauspeak to me.
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