Chuck Grassley: “However, the regulations do address areas where there are problems in Medicaid. Somehow I read this budget resolution as…”

“However, the regulations do address areas where there are problems in Medicaid. Somehow I read this budget resolution as not recognizing those real problems. States don't have clear guidance and could be inappropriately spending taxpayers' dollars. We ought to make sure that since Medicaid is a Federal-State program, that we have 50 States to deal with, they ought to have as much assurance as they can have in our basic law and regulations as to what they can do and not do. We ought to be concerned that they know that. Because if they do something wrong, we pay over half. In my State, we pay 62 percent of the cost of Medicaid. So let's talk about how many dollars might be involved. The budget resolution provides for $1.7 billion that is going to be addressed by these regulations.”