An updated inspect of all 50 states...

An updated inspect of all 50 states and the District of Columbia (DC) exhibits that the increasing fiscal crisis at the state even is threatening Medicaid coverage for low-income families. The report, "Medicaid Spending Growth: A 50 State Update for FY 2003" was performed from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. Halfway within the fiscal year 2003, nearly pair thirds of states have had to implement or are planning to implement a next to the first round of Medicaid cuts. For more information onward the Kaiser study, go online to www.kff.org/content/2003/20030113, and click upon "News Release." A second scan demonstrated the effect of these Medicaid program chisels in state budgets on the overall economy of those states. The report, issued by way of the health care consumer watchdog organization Families, USA, showed that states would be deprived of an average of 37 work at jobss and $3.4 million in business activity for each $1 million in cuts in the Medicaid program. The report also focused forward the positive effects of state cash invested in the Medicaid program: in 2001 state Medicaid spending generated through the whole extent of 2.9 million jobs, and the 50 states generated $279 billion in of recent origin business activity from the $98 billion they wearied on Medicaid. For a fac-simile of this report, and to calculate how present Medicaid proposals will affect each state's business activities, work at jobss and wages, go online to www.familiesusa.org.

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