A Medicaid Cut Obama No Longer Supports
Posted at 8:45 a.m. on Dec. 11, 2012
While President Obama has expressed a willingness to make cuts and deficit-shrinking reforms to entitlement programs, The Hill reports that “the Obama administration no longer supports a plan to combine the various calculations used to determine the federal government’s share of Medicaid spending.”
“Liberals have pressed the White House to ditch the so-called ‘blended rate’ since the Supreme Court’s landmark healthcare ruling this summer… Proposals to shift more costs to the states wouldn’t be very helpful as the White House tries to convince states that federal funding for the new expansion is secure.”
