Its not Greg's Fault

Gov. Greg Abbott is letting lawmakers and lobbyists take any heat that might come from the cuts that were recently made to Medicaid which impacted disabled children and elderly children. Abbott has just deflected questions involving these cuts and blames the legislators who ordered up the cuts in there two year plan. In the article from the Dallas Morning News it talks about how Texas wants to cut 350 million in just therapy pay outs. They say it is to make Medicaid more reliable and to make it more resistant to fraud and also just harder to get so that the state doesn't have to pay so much money. Texas is among 19 states that chose to cut Medicaid spending and make it more difficult to be granted Medicaid in 2015. Lt. Gov Dan Patrick will also decline to state anything. There is another meeting later this week which is supposed to make the rate cuts less substantial.