{"id":1272,"date":"2015-11-25T08:22:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T13:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2015-11-25T08:23:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T13:23:19","slug":"fight-over-medicaid-managed-care-tax-punches-hole-in-california-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1272","title":{"rendered":"Fight Over Medicaid Managed Care Tax Punches Hole in California Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0Barbara Feder Ostrov, Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>California lawmakers are staring down a $1.1 billion hole in next year\u2019s health budget after failing to come up with a way to replace the state\u2019s \u201cmanaged care organization tax\u201d on health insurance plans that serve Medi-Cal managed care recipients.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a hole big enough that state Gov. Jerry Brown recently used it as a reason to <a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/news\/2015\/10\/10\/governors-vetoes-poke-lawmakers-on-special-session-failure\" target=\"_blank\">veto 15 health care and other bills<\/a> sent to him by the state legislature.\u00a0 And unless it\u2019s filled, Brown, a Democrat, is expected to issue a preliminary state budget in January with sizeable cuts to health and human services programs. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/fight-over-medicaid-managed-care-tax-punches-hole-in-california-budget\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=24062143&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-89qYcbGMZb_nmIm8T8mEuaAJMRufid5SrT0Xu28UpQF_NW1vel3pxgfRCViAbosO6L8Jx23NpfAc8KO2wbK--vmGLAiA&amp;_hsmi=24062143\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-899 \" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"khn-logo1\" width=\"92\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s \r\n validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0Barbara Feder Ostrov, Kaiser Health News) California lawmakers are staring down a $1.1 billion hole in next year\u2019s health<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}