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FYI - Leavitt Endorses Many of Governors' Medicaid Proposals
On August 2, Department of Heath and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt discussed various health topics in an interview with Associated Press editors and reporters. On Medicaid, Leavitt said that the commission he appointed to recommend ways to cut $10 billion from Medicaid over five years would "likely look" at proposals from the National Governors Association and determine that they "are pretty well thought-out ideas."
"What the governors have basically proposed is a series of things that have been talked about for 10 years," Leavitt said. He said the governors' proposal to increase co-payments and deductibles would make beneficiaries more conscious of the cost of health care. Leavitt added, "If we weren't talking about a budget here, we'd be talking about this as reforms because this is what the governors want."
Source: Associated Press via San Francisco Chronicle (Aug 2, 2005)
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