House Subcommittee Unanimously Passes Moratorium on Medicaid Regs

From The Wall Street Journal (April 10):
 

Bill Advances to Suspend Medicaid Cost-Shift Rules
By Jane Zhang

WASHINGTON -- Legislation to block Medicaid rules that states said would shift billions of dollars of costs to them began a move through the House.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee's health panel Wednesday unanimously passed the bill, which would put a moratorium on seven rules that, among other things, would end federal payments for physician training and transportation of Medicaid-eligible children to school. Congress put some of the rules on hold last year; that moratorium expires June 30. The new legislation would hold the rules in abeyance until April 1, 2009, when there will be a new president...

...Read more.