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Its a step towards federal single payer. Medicaid is the state-run health insurance program for the poor and uninsured.

States want to rid themselves of a major entitlement cost and the Feds are only too happy to help.

[kabar]

Every deficit-reduction plan being discussed in Washington includes abandoning that 9-to-1 match soon, the task force warned. States that expanded Medicaid to comply with the Obama health law would be plunged into fiscal disaster.

The Feds are suckering the states to expand their Medicaid rolls and then pull the rug out from under them. When that happens, the states will be stuck holding the bag. Then what?