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Governors Establish 11-Member Task Force To Develop Their Own Plan

Determined to avoid repeating their experience two years ago in negotiating with the Administration’s 2003 plan for voluntary state Medicaid caps, the NGA has established an 11-member Medicaid reform group that expects to deliver its own plan by the end of February. "They tried to cap it the last time around," said Governor Bob Taft (R-OH). "Then, you're asking the states to take a risk - what if the caseload grows?" That effort to make major changes in the program collapsed after lengthy negotiations between federal officials and a bipartisan group of governors. The governors spearheading the NGA’s Medicaid reform plan are: NGA Chair Governor Mark Warner (D-VA) and Vice-Chair Governor Mike Huckabee (R-AR), and Governors Dirk Kempthorne (R-ID), Mitt Romney (R-ma), Thomas Vilsack (D-IA, Mike Johanns (R-NE), Edward Rendell (D-PA), Michael Rounds (R-SD), Jim Doyle (D-WI), Jennifer Granholm (D-MI) and Haley Barbour (R-MS). Governors from both parties met privately in January in Washington for almost three hours to discuss potential Medicaid reforms.

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