Another batch of alarming press releases from Families USA is blitzing unsuspecting news rooms across America.  Did you know that the Bush administration’s Medicaid cuts will cost 25,000 jobs in New York, 11,700 in North Carolina and 15,300 in Michigan? … 15,300? … To a man … It’s as though a plot to create a mini-recession is being hatched in the White House at this very moment.  

Trouble is, there are no planned cuts in Medicaid — only a slowing of the rate of increase!  Once again, Linda Gorman exposes more statistical malpractice from an organization that has never seen a health spending program it didn’t like.

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