Medicaid expansion cost scrutinized before review deadline

A joint session of the House and Senate Health & Welfare committees was presented with an update on Medicaid expansion, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, in the Lincoln Auditorium at the Idaho Capitol. Juliet Charron, administrator of Department of Health & Welfare’s Division of Medicaid, presented a summary of the program since it began in 2020. […]

Colorado lawmakers finalize state budget proposal. Here’s what they cut.

Colorado budget writers voted Wednesday night to introduce a state spending plan that eliminates a number of social programs, dramatically reduces transportation spending and leaves the state’s new K-12 funding formula in jeopardy in order to close a $1.2 billion shortfall. The Joint Budget Committee also cut into the operations of state agencies, while shifting […]

Slashing Medicaid to Pay for Trump’s Tax Cuts Could Lead to Vast State Shortfalls

House Republicans hunting for ways to pay for President Trump’s tax cuts have called for cutting the federal government’s share of Medicaid spending, including a proposal that would effectively gut the Affordable Care Act’s 2014 expansion of the program. Cutting Medicaid spending, which is expected to be central to fulfilling the budget plan that House […]