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Here is the just the beginning of the state's activities surrounding Medicaid and the actions that will be a direct result of the Supreme Courts' ruling on this particular piece of the health care law.
If Medicaid is used as simply a budget reduction tool, the states that use it as such, may find themselves with a different type of crisis down the road that could prove more costly. Medicaid funds pay for much of the long term care coverage in this country - that's nursing home care primarily - and with the population aging, people living much longer and pensions being almost non-existent for the generations to come, cuts to Medicaid could be devastating long term.
Read the article for yourself below:
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2012/July/25/medicaid-cuts.aspx
