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There is an effort to reduce the Medicaid cuts to the beneficiaries.

Carl Schmid

That continues in all 50 states, just to be able to afford the Medicaid program. And with obesity comes all these other complications.

Rep. Leslie Mortimer

It seems to me, if we are looking to get our arms around the exploding cost of Medicaid, we would look at the people who are working first.

Rep. Susan Bucher

The population is growing, and Medicaid doesn't keep up with inflation. It's nice to have Kaiser's help.

Joe Kortum

We're facing huge demand increases for food stamps and Medicaid assistance, ... At a time when so much is undecided, I just don't expect those talks to happen.

Pat Robertson

A majority of Medicaid patients are in those urban centers.

Tom Vincz

We're looking at Medicaid fraud like we're a major company.

John Cape

It's hard to tell because all Medicaid people don't cost you the same amount.

Tim Burgess

It costs $3,000 to $6,000 a day to keep one of these children in a hospital. The Legislature is talking about Medicaid reform, and we think we can be a very important part of that discussion.

Beth Rubio

It's good news for the state, and it's good news for Medicaid recipients.

Fred Cerise

We didn't do Medicaid because we determined it would cost us almost as much to apply as we spent.

John Law

Sometimes, the (payment) rate is too high and Medicaid has to adjust the rate and recoup payments made.

Jonathan Burns

Shame on us for creating perverse incentives that cause people to give up private coverage for Medicaid.

Michael Cannon

A lot of people are so afraid to go to work and lose their Medicaid, that they don't even apply to go to work.

Kelly Buckland

For hundreds of thousands of families, Medicaid is going to be a lifeline in the coming months.

John Dingell

You would hate for someone who just lost their job, and their child needed to go onto Medicaid, not to get Medicaid because their car was worth too much.

Sue Berkowitz

With Medicaid, it's so easy to buffalo auditors and cover up details. The government is just too busy to react to all the tips that come in.

James Moorman

The way you get (approval) is you demonstrate to the public that you are giving a quality product, which is what Medicaid is supposed to be.

Thomas Mitchell

We don't want innocent mistakes to be called Medicaid fraud.

Jon Dolan

We're still working with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid on some issues.

Tracy Okubo

Increased tax revenue is good news for the states. But the bad news is that things like Medicaid, that you have to pay for, still cost a fortune.

Scott Pattison

Then, we have to have one or two (patients) before we get a Medicaid visit to get our Medicaid license, ... Everything is establishing a precedent as we go.

Nancy Collins

No administration has ever undertaken such an ambitious attempt to reform and modernize Medicaid.

Rep. Scott Brinkman

There has to be a way to have Medicaid relief without taxes being involved. I would love to see the General Assembly look at their budget the same way we look at ours, and live within their means.

Gloria Whisenhunt

Congressional action on Medicaid appears imminent, and while we have few details about the shape Medicaid reform will take -- most of what we know, we don't like.

Craig Fuller

You can see from a case like this how the Medicaid system can have a substantial impact on county budgets.

Paul Larrabee

The exponential costs of Medicaid are increasing at a rate they probably can't afford.

Carl Homer

We looked at the Medicare market and knew that it was a growing market. Our first challenge was actually to become approved by CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services).

Brian Meyer

Even if [Pan] recovers, there will still be a huge cost afterward - even if Medicaid recovers a lot of the expenses.

Yumi Oshima

The aged and disabled population makes up about 20 percent of Medicaid and they use 60 to 70 percent of the expenditures.

Bob Day

If they lose the first big Medicaid case, the other side gets additional strength out of that kind of loss. And they're going to be able to demand more of the industry.

Mary Aronson

Of the 18 corporations in Michigan with more than 10,000 employees, four have double-digit percentages of employees on Medicaid.

Ken Fletcher

A lot of us suspected that was going on, have heard anecdotal stories about it, had the impression that it was harder and harder for poor kids to get Medicaid enrollment, but this is the most dramatic documentation we've had so far.

Bruce Vladeck

The economy will block spending cuts in low-income heating assistance and Medicaid and programs like those. But it will also make it harder to innovate.

Stanley E. Collender

People assume that Medicaid is a lot like insurance and pays for 100 percent of their health care.

Suzanne Messenger

We know we have workers on Medicaid. We're trying to improve that. We're asking the state to help us improve that, but we're not getting any answers.

Jennifer Holder

Now is not the time to be simultaneously going forward with a bill on taxes and Medicaid.

Heather Wilson

There's a $39 charge to have it done. Many times, the mother and child are covered by Medicaid.

Susan Moore

By not funding the Birth Defects Network, we're more than likely going to increase the amount of money we're going to have to spend in Early Intervention or Medicaid dollars.

Steve Mcdonald

We're not cutting Medicaid. We're reforming government.

Jim Nussle

Clearly, the number of dollars required in Medicaid, very stretched already, will increase. It would be amazingly callous, and to me, unconscionable if they insist on these Medicaid cuts.

Sherrod Brown

Our children are covered by Medicaid.

Keith Byrd

They have been very tight-lipped about everything. All I can say is it centers on allegations of Medicaid fraud. I don't know anything about the when, where, who, why or how much.

Leslie Gerbracht

From 2002 to 2005, 11,500 commercially insured kids were started on the type 2 drugs. And that doesn't include children on Medicaid.

Emily Cox

We do rehab here, but because we have Phys A's, it doesn't bring up our Medicaid enough.

Ted Marchibroda

That drags our Medicaid reimbursement down. That's one reason why rural facilities do poorly.

Ted Marchibroda