Medicaid is a mess

Sidonie Squier

Capitol Report New Mexico - Any day now, Gov. Susana Martinez expects to receive a report from the state’s Human Services Department addressing the politically explosive topic of redesigning the state’s Medicaid program. We’ve written in the past few months about how the Human Services Secretary Sidonie Squier says Medicaid needs to be reformed in order to survive. A number of liberal organizations, such as New Mexico Voices for Children, say that’s not true – that Medicaid is fiscally solvent and no dramatic changes need to be made.

But just the other day, a couple reports came out that back up Squier’s claims. First, the Washington Post — hardly a right-wing mouthpiece — published a story Nov. 28 describing how states across the country are “caught in a fiscal vise as weak economic growth, dwindling federal help and increasing appeals from hard-pressed local governments squeeze their budgets.” The prime culprit? Medicaid, which is growing much faster than state revenues: Read full story here: News New Mexico

Medicaid is a mess