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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will propose giving cash- strapped states about $25 billion worth of help with their Medicaid budgets when presenting its 2011 budget Monday, a White House official with knowledge of the plan said Friday.
The proposal would extend for six months, until July 2011, the help that states got in last year’s economic stimulus bill with their Medicaid programs.
Under the Medicaid initiative, the federal government takes on a higher share of state Medicaid costs, with every state getting an additional 6.2 percent of its Medicaid budget paid for by the feds.
