Medicaid cuts not as likely

Medicaid cuts not as likely

Gov. Haley Barbour, a Republican who oversees Medicaid, had threatened deep cuts beginning July 1. But Medicaid spokesman Francis Rullan said today that officials anticipate state lawmakers will join Barbour’s support of a hospital tax plan as a funding source for the program, “thus rendering any cost-cutting issues moot.”

Clarion Ledger
7/1/8