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Cutting Medicaid is no quick fix: reductions in federal behavioral health funding will increase costs in other areas.

Publication: Behavioral Health Management
Publication Date: 01-NOV-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Cutting Medicaid is no quick fix: reductions in federal behavioral health funding will increase costs in other areas.(EDITORIAL)

Article Excerpt
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

--H.L. Mencken

The country is on the brink of making some momentous changes to Medicaid. Unfortunately, lawmakers are about to permit states to make supposedly clear and simple changes to Medicaid that, borrowing from the words of early 20th-century journalist and pundit H.L. Mencken, are also likely to be wrong--both in the short and the long terms.

Conservative Republicans are on a major cost-cutting drive that they see as a chance to revive their party's reputation for...

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