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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
"Help for States Crushed by Medicaid Costs"
Seattle, Washington
January 15, 2010
A report released today by the
Ocean State Policy Research
Institute of Providence, Rhode Island and the
Center for Long-Term Care Reform
of Seattle, Washington explains how states can save money and improve
long-term care services by escaping Lilliputian federal Medicaid red tape.
"Doing LTC
RIght."
Medicaid, especially the welfare program's exploding
long-term care component, is killing state budgets.
The Heritage Foundation reported recently that states
could save $1 trillion by dropping out of Medicaid: "Medicaid
Meltdown"
Governor Jim Gibbons of Nevada says his state is
considering whether to drop out of Medicaid. "Governor
suggests state exit Medicaid."
But how can states preserve and improve long-term care
services for truly needy people with limited or no federal Medicaid funds?
That's the question this new report answers.
Rhode Island has a unique "global Medicaid waiver" under
which the state accepts a cap on federal matching funds in exchange for
exemption from burdensome federal rules and regulations.
"Doing
LTC RIght" examines progress under the state's global waiver to
improve LTC services and recommends additional measures that must be taken
to prevent a budgetary meltdown.
States that follow these recommendations can avert a
Medicaid disaster, improve access to and quality of long-term care, and
expand jobs in the finance and insurance industries.
Read "Doing LTC RIght"
here.
The Ocean State Policy Research Institute (www.oceanstatepolicy.org)
"provides free market answers in Rhode Island." "The Center for Long-Term
Care Reform (www.centerltc.com) is
a private institute "dedicated to ensuring quality long-term care for all
Americans."
Contact: Stephen Moses, president, Center for Long-Term
Care Reform, 206-283-7036,
smoses@centerltc.com, 2212 Queen Anne Avenue North, #110, Seattle,
Washington, 98109
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