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Utah lawmakers discuss Medicaid spending cap

By admin | May 26, 2010

Depending on which side you’re talking to, a new proposal to cap Medicaid spending in Utah is either a damned if you do or a damned if you don’t situation.

Sen. Dan Liljenquist, R-Bountiful, says that if the state doesn’t do something and soon, Medicaid costs are going to cripple future funding for other things like education. His plan is to cap Medicaid growth to the same rate as the state’s general budget. If the general budget goes up 5 percent, for example, so can the state’s portion of the Medicaid budget. In reality, the state’s portion of Medicaid has grown at three times the rate of the state budget.

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