Cutting Medicaid Funds Is Short-Sighted Move
- By Rep. Sherrod Brown
- Special to Roll Call
- July 11, 2005, 3 p.m.
Late in April, Congress passed a federal budget blueprint for fiscal 2006 that includes a $10 billion cut in federal funding for Medicaid. The Bush administration then stepped in and established a “Medicaid Commission” charged with identifying policy changes that would produce a spending cut of that magnitude. Even though it is the responsibility of Congress, not the White House, to modify the Medicaid program, the administration refused to give Members of Congress a vote on this commission.
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