title: Now entering crisis mode. Medicaid woes have states seeking drastic solutions, as feds struggle to keep program strong for patients.
abstract: States in the midst of budget crises are grappling with how to reconcile surging Medicaid budgets with federal requirements that hamper efforts to trim their rolls. Provider groups have found themselves caught in the middle. "It makes more sense not to change the rules in midstream," Bruce Rueben, left, president of the Florida Hospital Association, says of keeping the existing federal requirements.
authors: Rich
authors: R
authors: Daly
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets; D008484:Medicaid / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013219:State Government; D014481:United States