OR Lawmaker: State Budget Draft's Inclusion Of End To Medicaid Expansion Not A Proposal

April 24, 2017 at 7:05 PM
Oregon state Democrats' language in an April 18 discussion document on elimination of the state's Medicaid expansion among the potential cuts was not intended as a recommendation, state Rep. Nancy Nathanson (D) told Inside Health Policy . Nathanson is co-chair of the state legislature's Joint Committee on Ways & Means. Though the document made national news, Nathanson said the document is a “laying out of options” in case the state can't fill its budget gaps. “This is not a decision,...


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