Medicaid's "history of problems"

NEMS360.com - Medicaid Problem after problem: "Mississippi’s more than 600,000 Medicaid recipients were carried to the brink Tuesday by the Legislature and Gov. Haley Barbour.

About 90 minutes before Medicaid stood repealed and unfunded, the final piece of legislation was passed to continue the program that provides health care to the disabled, elderly, poor pregnant women and impoverished children.

While Tuesday night in many ways was the most dramatic example of the continuing problems in the health care program, it was far from an anomaly. In recent years, Medicaid recipients have been caught in the middle of numerous political disagreements that threatened the agency and, more importantly, health care for the beneficiaries."