Background Materials Relevant to the Administration's New Medicaid Proposal

• Medicaid "Mandatory" and "Optional" Eligibility and Benefits 
  
  
• Fact Sheet on Medicaid "Mandatory" and "Optional" Eligibility and Benefits 
  
  
• Link to release of Medicaid Spending Growth: A 50 State Update for Fiscal Year 2003 and Related Reports 
  
  
• Acceleration of Medicaid Spending Reflects Mounting Pressures 
  
  
• Medicaid Acute and Long Term Care Spending by State, 2001 
  
  
• Medicaid at a Glance fact sheet 
  
  
• Medicaid and Prescription Drugs: Fact Sheet 
  
  
• The New Medicaid and CHIP Waiver Initiatives 
  
  
• Utah Waiver Fact Sheet 
  
  
• Link to The Medicaid Resource Book 
  
  
• Link to Webcast of the Bush Administration Press Conference 
  
  
• Link to Transcript 
  
  
• View NewsHour segment on the proposed Medicaid changes, including an interview with KCMU executive director, Diane Rowland