And, Senate President David Williams Releases "State Senate’s Roadmap To A Responsible Solution" To Medicaid Shortfall. Read More.
Roadmap to a Responsible Solution
Dear supporter,
Today, I along with several of my colleagues in the State Senate sent a letter to Governor Beshear urging him to work with us on a responsible solution to our state’s budget shortfall. While he spent the last two days flying around the state at taxpayer expense, the Majority Members of the State Senate crafted a series of principles that provide a reasonable, responsible framework under which a budget compromise can be reached.
State Senate’s Roadmap to a Responsible Solution
• Enact reasonable, across-the-board spending cuts to maintain budget integrity. To protect against the virtual certainty that promised Medicaid savings will not happen, we must enact modest spending cuts today to protect taxpayers from massive budget shortfalls or higher taxes in the next fiscal year.
• Pay $166 million for Medicaid services rendered in the current year. We do not support cuts to any Medicaid provider in the current fiscal year.
• Ensure necessary funds are authorized to fully fund Medicaid services next year. This protects Kentucky’s most vulnerable citizens are protected this year and next.
• Set reasonable expectations for Managed Care savings and provide a taxpayer safety net. While we agree that managed care could lead to savings in the future, we want to ensure those savings materialize before we use next year’s money to balance this year’s budget. Virtually all informed sources believe it will take longer than one year to put a statewide managed care system in place or to realize any significant savings from it; we must take this reality into consideration to protect taxpayers.
• No education cuts in current fiscal year; fast-track restoration of education cuts next year. Our plan does not cut education funding this year and next year restores $19 million to SEEK if Medicaid savings are realized above the savings credit in our plan. This approach will encourage the Executive Branch to achieve the savings in Medicaid as soon as possible, rather than to explain next year why savings were not realized (as it has done in the past).
Read all of the principles and the letter we sent to Governor Beshear by clicking here
I hope you will take a minute to read our principles and that you agree that we shouldn’t spend money we don’t have.
Sincerely,
David Williams
Dear supporter,
Today, I along with several of my colleagues in the State Senate sent a letter to Governor Beshear urging him to work with us on a responsible solution to our state’s budget shortfall. While he spent the last two days flying around the state at taxpayer expense, the Majority Members of the State Senate crafted a series of principles that provide a reasonable, responsible framework under which a budget compromise can be reached.
State Senate’s Roadmap to a Responsible Solution
• Enact reasonable, across-the-board spending cuts to maintain budget integrity. To protect against the virtual certainty that promised Medicaid savings will not happen, we must enact modest spending cuts today to protect taxpayers from massive budget shortfalls or higher taxes in the next fiscal year.
• Pay $166 million for Medicaid services rendered in the current year. We do not support cuts to any Medicaid provider in the current fiscal year.
• Ensure necessary funds are authorized to fully fund Medicaid services next year. This protects Kentucky’s most vulnerable citizens are protected this year and next.
• Set reasonable expectations for Managed Care savings and provide a taxpayer safety net. While we agree that managed care could lead to savings in the future, we want to ensure those savings materialize before we use next year’s money to balance this year’s budget. Virtually all informed sources believe it will take longer than one year to put a statewide managed care system in place or to realize any significant savings from it; we must take this reality into consideration to protect taxpayers.
• No education cuts in current fiscal year; fast-track restoration of education cuts next year. Our plan does not cut education funding this year and next year restores $19 million to SEEK if Medicaid savings are realized above the savings credit in our plan. This approach will encourage the Executive Branch to achieve the savings in Medicaid as soon as possible, rather than to explain next year why savings were not realized (as it has done in the past).
Read all of the principles and the letter we sent to Governor Beshear by clicking here
I hope you will take a minute to read our principles and that you agree that we shouldn’t spend money we don’t have.
Sincerely,
David Williams
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