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Article Source: The Houston ChronicleThe health policy world is in a tizzy. Texas is thinking about dropping Medicaid. Gov. Rick Perry thinks a private solution can work better. Several other states are paying close attention and considering doing the same.
In the case of Medicaid, we have a particularly good example from Indiana.
Why, in this budget climate, would a state pay more to incompletely subsidize private coverage for only a fraction of its low-income uninsured residents than it would to provide more comprehensive health benefits to the same population under Medicaid?
With Arizona in the news with its Medicaid it is too often that we forget that other states are doing similar things and with bad results.
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