One day after lawmakers ignored frugal appeals through special education, Governor NED Lamont previewed Fiscal Nightmare, a Medicaid.
In other words, be careful with the main budget. Because it can soon be for the world of pain.
It will be for a few months to know how deep the state and Donald Trump will cut the federal qualification program that will fund the health care for 1.2 million Connecticut residents. However, the Republican House of Republicans aims to be $ 880 billion in overall federal budgets, according to this week’s report. Parliamentary.
The governor said at a afternoon press conference at the Charter Oak Health Center in Hartford, “We are modeling now to see what the results are.”
According to the Lamont Administration, what is clear at this point is that the effects of all the cuts considered by Congress are ugly.
What happens if Medicaid is converted into a block subsidy system and provides a fixed amount regardless of the patient’s needs or demand? Connecticut loses an average of $ 1.3 billion in the next seven years, or an average annual average of $ 180 million.
Do Congress should lower or give up the current guarantee that Washington repays more than 50% of all state Medicaid costs? Lamont said Connecticut would lose $ 880 million “actually overnight.”
The Governor said, “I don’t think there is a way for the Konnecticut taxpayers to organize all tribes. “But we think we have to do our best to help those who need the most.”
State auditor Sean Scanlon reflects the governor’s concern. Connecticut has received more than $ 6 billion for this year’s federal Medicide subsidies, which is about one -four of the total budget.
“We can’t replace what we have from the federal government. And it is to think that we are worried about us, ”Scanlon said.
John Larson and Joe Courtney, who attended the first and second district council members of Lamont, Scanlon, and Connecticut, did not guess how the state officials could organize Medicaid in a nightmare scenario. Officials said it was too early to concentrate on it.
Nevertheless, there is an advantage that Connecticut does not need to participate in Medicaid. This includes dentistry and pharmaceutical application, home nursing for elderly patients.
However, Senator Cathy Osten, a co-chairman of the General Assembly’s Budget Committee, said he was not ready to accept the cut mirror.
OSTEN said, “We do not perform pre -tasks in programs that are as important as Medicaid. “We will not start cutting the program that makes people alive. This is what Medicaid does.”
And two nightmare scenarios that Lamont discussed on Thursday are no longer considered. The US House of Representatives this week politics.
Lamont’s social worker Andrea Barton Reeves said at a press conference earlier this week that adding work requirements for Medicaid will be the “most realistic first stage” that Washington policy makers took. On Thursday, she aimed at the policy in Connecticut, saying that most Medicaids have a job.
Barton-Eleves said, “It is a wrong assumption that people in Medicaid or those who are supported by any kind do not work. “In many cases, business requirements were not effective in other states because the cost of work is very expensive.”
The Lamont and his fellow Democratic Party of the State Council always didn’t see their eyes in Medicaid and didn’t see how tight Connecticut should be in their wallet prefectures.
Last year, the governor began researching the state’s Medicade program as a model known as a management medical care, and earning fierce criticisms of legislators and advocates.
Connecticut uses what is known as a management commission service model for Medicaid Program, where the state pay directly to the provider for the services provided to the Medicaid beneficiaries. Management medical or traditional “Aviation managementThe model, the state, pays the monthly fee to the insurance company to manage the Medicaid program instead, and the insurance company pays the payment provider.
Final reportThe author of the Independent Consultant concluded that Connecticut’s Medicaid Program boasts a level of access similar to the low cost compared to a colleague, and that the use of management medical care will not save money.
In recent years, the Governor has hit his head with the legislators in accordance with the plan to send $ 40 million in supplementary subsidies to local school districts to ease the crisis of increasing the crisis of special education costs.
The financial and moderate Lamont noted that Connecticut’s budget can already exceed the constitutional expenditure limit that exceeds $ 61 million in growth that matches household income and inflation.
And he rejected special education subsidies that would have pushed the limit over $ 100 million, but the members of the National Assembly were prepared to ignore it.
Lamont ultimately recognized and converted its funds to an account out of the budget, and agreed to sign a bill to send $ 40 million to local schools.
