{"id":2181,"date":"2012-07-04T09:49:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T13:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2012-07-04T09:49:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T13:49:41","slug":"gop-governors-say-medicaid-costs-are-already-breaking-states-backs-are-they-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/07\/gop-governors-say-medicaid-costs-are-already-breaking-states-backs-are-they-right\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP governors say Medicaid costs are already breaking states\u2019 backs. Are they right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Medicaid-chart1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2186\" title=\"Medicaid-chart1\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Medicaid-chart1-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Medicaid-chart1-300x229.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Medicaid-chart1-150x114.jpg 150w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Medicaid-chart1-400x305.jpg 400w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Medicaid-chart1.jpg 606w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Republican governors vowing to opt out of Obamacare\u2019s Medicaid expansion argue the program is already burdening cash-strapped state governments and would be a poison pill for state budgets in the long run. Are they right?<\/p>\n<p>When you look at all spending on state programs\u2014including money from both federal and state governments\u2014Medicaid is the single largest expenditure, at 22 percent, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>But when you isolate what states themselves have to put into Medicaid, the fiscal picture changes: Across the country, 16 percent of state general fund\u00a0 dollars go toward Medicaid, less than half of what states spend on K-12 education:<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE: \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/wp\/2012\/07\/03\/the-truth-about-medicaids-cost-to-states-in-three-charts\/\">GOP governors say Medicaid costs are already breaking states\u2019 backs. Are they right?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican governors vowing to opt out of Obamacare\u2019s Medicaid expansion argue the program is already burdening cash-strapped state governments and would be a poison pill for state budgets in the long run. Are they right? When you look at all spending on state programs\u2014including money from both federal and state governments\u2014Medicaid is the single&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,5,22,7],"tags":[125,24,206,250,672,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions\/2188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}