More than 37,000 Medicaid recipients would be affected by the proposed cuts, including 19,000 people who live in nursing homes and 2,700 people with developmental disabilities, reported The Times-Picayune. In Louisiana, about 37,000 elderly and disabled could soon lose their medicaid benefits because of a state budget shortfall of more than half a billion. The Louisiana Nursing Home Association warned that 25,000 health care workers’ jobs would be at risk, reported CNN. Louisiana lawmakers are grappling with a budget deficit of at least $550 million and are trying to figure out how to make up the shortfall. John Bel Edwards and his administration this week for causing unnecessary panic by sending the warning notices to Medicaid recipients before the budget cuts are finalized.

Source: Huffington Post May 10, 2018 16:30 UTC