Health Care Reform and State Medicaid Budgets

Governors worry federal health reform could strain budgets in states with many poor, jobless, By Emily Wagster Pettus (AP), September 14, 2009, Los Angeles Times: “States with high levels of poverty and unemployment have been struggling with growing Medicaid budgets during the recession, and some governors worry their financial burdens could get worse as Congress works on a comprehensive health care bill. They’re especially worried about possible expansion of Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program for the needy and disabled…”