Enhanced Medicaid match extension would help state budget and low-income families
One of the most important provisions of the stimulus bill passed by Congress last February was the assistance provided to beleaguered state budgets in the form of enhanced federal matching rates for Medicaid. Now, as Oklahoma and other states remained mired in a deep fiscal crisis, the prospects seem good for an extension of the enhanced federal Medicaid match for an additional six months. This is one of the few promising signs on the fiscal horizons, and good news for the hundreds of thousands of Oklahoma families that receive health insurance coverage through Medicaid. Read the rest of this entry »
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