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Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:47 Written by rslcpol Friday, 30 July 2010 09:42
From dallasnews.com:
WASHINGTON – Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst warned Wednesday that new federal health care legislation will bust Texas’ budget, saddling state taxpayers with $27 billion in extra costs over the next decade.
“That’s an astounding number for us,” Dewhurst told the Texas State Society at a breakfast that included a half-dozen members of Congress. “We’re on the hook for all those folks we’ve been trying to get to sign up for Medicaid.”
Democrats disputed Dewhurst’s estimate.
He said that doubling the state’s Medicaid rolls will mean that health care will claim an ever-bigger share of the state budget. And that segment has already grown from one-quarter of the budget to one-third in the last seven years.
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