NACo News Watch

Federal Budget Deal Delays Hospital Cuts -- For Now

NACo is quoted in this Governing article about how the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to change state Medicaid expansion from obligatory to optional is affecting urban hospitals.  

“The way it was done, it gives kind of a breather, but then it increases the steepness of the cliff,” said Paul Beddoe, the associate legislative director for health policy at the National Association of Counties.