Medicaid rules, Understaffed park police

last updated 8 January 2015

Costly Medicaid rules

Democratic and Republican governors this week assailed new Medicaid rules they said would burden states with $13 billion in new costs when their budgets are already in deficit. Meeting in Washington, the governors objected to regulations that bar the use of federal money to pay for doctor training and limit payments to state-run hospitals. The Bush administration says the rules will “protect the fiscal integrity of the Medicaid program.”

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