Since assuming office in 2004, Gov. Haley Barbour has struggled to fund Medicaid, the government health program for the poor that covers about one in four Mississippians.
And every time the governor has faced a funding shortfall, the Bush administration has helped with a solution.
That was again the case this week when Barbour announced the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would make up a $90 million deficit in the state’s Medicaid budget.
The money would come through a refund of overpayments Mississippi made in the past five years for coverage of some “dual eligibles,” Mississippians who are enrolled both in Medicaid and Medicare, the government health-care program for the aged.
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