Editorials, Opinion Pieces Respond To Federal Medicaid Budget Cuts, USA
Augusta Chronicle: The House's $50 billion deficit reduction plan is a "sham," and the "nation is headed for an economic Armageddon" if lawmakers do not make further cuts, a Chronicle editorial states. The editorial adds, "There's nothing compassionate in allowing wasteful entitlement spending to continue growing at unsustainable rates" (Augusta Chronicle, 11/27).
Philadelphia Inquirer: Senate-House negotiators "should lean" toward the Senate's proposed $35 billion in cuts because they "do less harm to those in need" than the House's proposed cuts, an Inquirer editorial states. The editorial adds that the negotiators should "follow the Senate's proposal to trim excessive payments by Medicare to managed care plans" (Philadelphia Inquirer, 11/27).
Opinion Pieces
Alison Acosta Fraser, Philadelphia Inquirer: The proposed "spending reductions are a good first step, but they're like bailing out ... a rowboat with a Dixie cup -- a good place to start, but much more is needed," Fraser, director of the Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, writes in an Inquirer opinion piece. Fraser says that debts from Medicare, Medicaid and other programs "are huge and unaffordable," adding that the proposed cuts "are good first steps that lay important groundwork for future reforms" (Fraser, Philadelphia Inquirer, 11/27).
John Irons, Philadelphia Inquirer: "As a nation, we do not need to abandon long-held values that demand at least minimal supports for our most needy, who cannot tighten their belts any further," Irons, director of tax and budget policy at the Center for American Progress, writes in an Inquirer opinion piece. Irons adds, "Members of both political parties need to broaden the debate and offer more and different alternatives to the current status quo in Washington and to move beyond the 'cut vs. no cut' debate" (Irons, Philadelphia Inquirer, 11/27).
Peter Ferrara, Washington Times: "If conservatives want to reduce Big Government, rather than see it explode into full-grown, old-fashioned, Scandinavian socialism, ... Medicaid reform needs to be a central, urgent priority," Ferrara, director of entitlement and budget policy at the Institute for Policy Innovation and a senior fellow at the Free Enterprise Fund, writes in a Times opinion piece. Ferrara adds that under one proposal, "Medicaid spending would be replaced by block grants to each state for its programs for the poor" and "[s]tate programs would have to include a work requirement for able-bodied recipients to qualify" (Ferrara, Washington Times, 11/28).
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