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Monday, July 26, 2010
Ind. Gov't. - "Lawmakers warned to prepare now for major health-care changes"
Deborah Yetter of the Louisville Courier Journal reports from the meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures. The lengthy story begins:
The new federal health-care reform law means dramatic changes for states that lawmakers need to prepare for now — even though the major provisions don't take effect until 2014.That was the message to lawmakers from around the country who were in Louisville Sunday during the opening day of the National Conference of State Legislatures.
“You are already behind the eight-ball,” Utah House Speaker David Clark told fellow lawmakers at a health summit, part of the four-day conference. “There is no time to waste.”
Cindy Mann, a top official with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said the federal law will reshape Medicaid, and lawmakers need to be ready for changes that will add millions of additional people to the program within four years.
“2014 is today,” she said. “There are so many critical decisions to be made.”
Posted by Marcia Oddi on July 26, 2010 09:28 AM
Posted to Indiana Government