Medicaid and New York Budget

I do not really know how things work in New York, and never really cared about them, but I think they made really brilliant move on health care. 

The governor’s Medicaid Redesign Team — which was dominated by health care providers and public officials — agreed to hold state spending on the major portion of Medicaid to $15.1 billion next year, well below the $18 billion originally projected. They also agreed to hold future growth to a 10-year rolling average of medical inflation. That is a very stringent standard.

 If it works well, maybe president Obama could take a close look at what New York did, and apply to the United States.