Governors Fear Medicaid Costs in Health Plan

Gainesville.com
July 20, 2009
by KEVIN SACK and ROBERT PEAR

BILOXI, Miss. — The nation’s governors, Democrats as well as Republicans, voiced deep concern Sunday about the shape of the health care plan emerging from Congress, fearing that Washington was about to hand them expensive new Medicaid obligations without money to pay for them.

The role of the states in a restructured health care system dominated the summer meeting of the National Governors Association here this weekend —