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<DIV><FONT size=2>What a wonderful loving, Christian state Idaho is, deeply
committed to the primary exhortations of Christ to help the poor and
unfortunate!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>From the <EM>Spokesman-Review</EM>, 10-26-10 Page
A6</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=abody><B>Idaho plans cuts to Medicaid</B></SPAN><SPAN
class=abody><B> <BR><BR>BOISE</B></SPAN><SPAN class=abody> – The Idaho
Department of Health and Welfare is poised to make more than <STRONG><FONT
color=#ff0000>$8 million in cuts to Medicaid programs and services for
low-income adults with severe mental illness and children with autism and other
developmental disabilities</FONT></STRONG>.<BR><BR>The agency has drafted a new
set of rules that authorize cuts in services or elimination of some programs
designed to trim about $1.6 million from its current fiscal year budget. Those
cuts, however, would also trigger the loss of another $6.5 million in federal
Medicaid matching funds used to reimburse care providers. The agency has been
under pressure all year to find ways to cut more than $57 million from its
Medicaid budget in fiscal 2011 to offset the financial pounding to the state
general fund amid the economic downturn.</SPAN><SPAN class=abody><B>
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<DIV><BR>Wayne A. Fox<BR>1009 Karen Lane<BR>PO Box 9421<BR>Moscow, ID
83843</DIV>
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