At our meetings in Virginia last week, both the
Nationaland
Eastern Region Council of State Governments passed resolutions urging federal policymakers to support and continue the successful Medicaid state-federal partnership and “avoid the imposition of new burdens on state budgets.” The resolutions are in
response to signals from the incoming federal administration and Congress to place new limits on Medicaid funding to states combined with more flexibility operating the program. In
Connecticut, Medicaid covers one in five state residents, including 186,967 people newly eligible under the Affordable Care Act, brings $4.6 billion in health funding to the state and comprises 23.2% of the state’s budget.
