By Tom Corwin
The Augusta Chronicle
July 27, 2010
Health care workers rallied at an Augusta nursing home Tuesday to call on Congress to pass an extension of increased Medicaid funding, which many nursing home patients rely on.
Georgia already had counted on $375 million of that extra Medicaid funding in its budget for this fiscal year, so state agencies such as the Medical College of Georgia are facing a 4 percent withholding of funds and being asked to make contingency plans for cuts twice that big.
A spokesman for Gov. Sonny Perdue said that prospects appear uncertain for the Medicaid extension to pass and that he is trying not to stick the next governor with an unwelcome present come January.
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