Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Nebraska getting serious about Medicaid reform
["Panel Will Try to Curb Medicaid," RedNova News, 26 July 2005.]
Missouri recently made significant changes to its Medicaid program, and Kansas legislators are increasingly talking about the need to address the issue here. Nebraska is moving on the issue now, as well:
Ten Nebraskans will set out Wednesday on a quest to stop Medicaid from becoming the monster that ate the state government's budget.
"It's eating us alive," said State Sen. Don Pederson of North Platte, who has been asked to be chairman of the council. "Medicaid, at the present rate of growth, is outpacing our capacity to meet our other obligations."
Projections for the next 20 years show that Medicaid and state aid to schools would slowly squeeze out all other state needs.
This effort follows several previous attempts at Medicaid reform.
The most recent was a task force that ended a few years ago without issuing recommendations. In 2003, a consultant's study about long-term care reform produced recommendations but no action.
[Matthew Hisrich, "A Backgrounder on Kansas Medicaid," The Flint Hills Center, 19 July 2004.]
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