Hassan’s secret: Covering up Medicaid problems

Last year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) warned the Hassan administration that New Hampshire’s expanded Medicaid program was not complying with federal law.

This was rather inconvenient for Hassan, who made the subsidized health insurance program the central plank in her campaign for the U.S. Senate.

To be fair to Hassan, she never wanted to have hospitals cover the non-federal share of expanded Medicaid benefits for able-bodied adults. She wanted to put New Hampshire taxpayers on the hook. But she did take credit for the final bill. *| More…

| Union Leader

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