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Don Nickles: “The chart does not show any offsetting. It shows a total cost increase of the new Medicaid mandate. I think the Senator…”

On the recordAugust 1, 2002
The chart does not show any offsetting. It shows a total cost increase of the new Medicaid mandate. I think the Senator is trying to imply there may be some savings for some areas if a State had a lot of catastrophic and the Federal Government were going to pick up 100 percent of that cost, I guess. That may be correct, but it does not have a column that shows that. Maybe if we would have had a little more time--the answer is no. I ask my colleague, though, since CBO did some work for the Senator, did they do a State-by-State analysis on what the impact of the State of Oklahoma would be?
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Discussing the financial implications of a new Medicaid mandate during Senate debate.

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