President Obama’s Budget Promotes Relatively Small Cuts to Medicaid

President Obama’s budget, released last Wednesday, proposes a $19.6 billion reduction over 10 years to Medicaid spending.  Of this number, the President’s budget would cut $4.5 billion by limiting Medicaid reimbursement of durable medical equipment (DME) to Medicare rates.  When viewed in comparison to Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray’s (D-WA) budget proposal of a…