State budget could be 'ugly' if Medicaid funding goes down

Garrett:
AUSTIN – The Senate's chief budget writer says that Texas' next two-year budget will be "ugly" if Congress doesn't continue paying states artificially high rates of Medicaid matching money. A return to the federal government's traditional match rate on Medicaid, the country's main health care program for the poor, would bring $4.4 billion less to Texas in the next budget cycle, Sen. Steve Ogden, R-Bryan, said Wednesday.
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