title: Desperate times.
abstract: Medicaid is crushing the state budget. A lingering recession that swelled enrollment, a state budget shortfall that could top $27 billion, and the fact that health system reform will require significant expansion of Medicaid combined to create urgency about improving Medicaid's efficiency and effectiveness in this year's legislative session. Some health policy experts believe Medicaid simply is unsustainable in its current form.
authors.forename: Ken
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ortolon
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D008484:Medicaid; D013781:Texas; D014481:United States