It’s good news for the state, and it’s good news for Medicaid recipients.

Common sense tells us that the government’s attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide...

We’re still working with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid on some issues.

We can’t accomplish what we need to accomplish by across-the-board cuts, because some of those across-the-board cuts would mean 5-percent cuts in food stamps or 5-percent cuts in Medicaid precisely at a time when the...