re: Louisiana special session: Failure.

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Fund medicaid at the level before Honor Code showed up and we’ll be fine.

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What part of medicaid would you cut? If a state participates in medicaid there are about a million mandatory benefits they have to provide and a few optional ones.

You really can't just cut 10% off it. Well, you can if you do it to provider rates. But even that has an allowed minimum which we are at.

You can get rid of the expansion, but that won't save you any money for the next few years. And even then it's a relatively small amount due to the 90/10 split.

Best options for medicaid include long term care reform (which could raise ~100 million) and maybe copays. But understand copays are essentially a tax on providers. That could raise anywhere between nothing and $170 million depending on how you do it.