The National Association of State Budget Officers warns that Medicaid is about to push state budgets “for a cliff in July.”

The National Association of State Budget Officers warns that Medicaid is about to push state budgets "for a cliff in July." Scotty Starnes | December 22, 2010 at 4:00 PM | Tags: health care, health care expenditures, health care rationing, Massachusetts, Medicaid, National Governors Association, North Carolina, Obamacare, Washington State | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-3RQ

Just wait until Obama's health care takeover pushes more into the Medicaid system. Of course, it's not going to cost anything and will not add to the deficit. Just parroting what Obama promised.

Bloomberg.com reports:

Washington State may not pay for glasses anymore. Massachusetts already chopped dentures. As of Oct. 1, North Carolina no longer covers surgery for the clinically obese.

Government-sponsored rationing.

Governors nationwide are taking a scalpel to Medicaid, the jointly run state and federal health-care program for 48 million poor Americans, half of whom are children. The single biggest expense for states, Medicaid consumes about 22 percent of their total $1.6 trillion in expenditures, more than what is allocated to elementary and secondary education, according to a National Governors Association report.

With federal stimulus funds to help states pay higher Medicaid costs running out June 30, “we’re heading for a cliff in July,†said Brian Sigritz, director of state fiscal studies at the National Association of State Budget Officers in Washington.

Medicaid enrollment has jumped 13.6 percent since the recession began in 2007, according to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation based in Menlo Park, California. The 2009 federal stimulus bill and a supplemental appropriation this year allocated a total of $103 billion for Medicaid. With that funding ending, state health-care expenditures may climb as much as 25 percent in fiscal 2012, according to a Kaiser report.

Why are prices going up? I though ObamaCare was designed to make health care cheaper.

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