| It is important to realize
that the State of Nebraska cannot sustain the current growth rate of our Medicaid program.
Our goal is to reform Medicaid while protecting the needs of people and defining the
appropriate role of government in helping to ensure access to adequate and affordable
health care for all Nebraskans, within the fiscal constraints of our budget. LB 709
reflects a sincere commitment on the part of the Executive and Legislative branches of
state government to address this task, despite its immense size and complexity.
Introduced by Sen. Philip Erdman, LB 709 provides for reform efforts to moderate the
growth of Medicaid spending, to ensure the sustainability of the Medicaid program for
needy Nebraskans, to establish priorities and ensure flexibility in the allocation of
Medicaid benefits, to examine the effects of changing economics and demographics and to
offer alternatives to Medicaid eligibility.
The framework of Medicaid reform is guided by two words - deliberate and deliberative.
Medicaid reform in Nebraska needs to be deliberate, meaning that it needs to be data
driven. We need to understand what the Medicaid program actually is and not just
what we think it is.
In addition to that, Medicaid reform program needs to be deliberative.
Nebraskan's should all be participating in the discussion - thinking, exploring and
suggesting ways that we can improve Medicaid. We start by understanding it with the
data and then we discuss it and we develop Nebraska-specific solutions to the problems
that Medicaid is presenting today. |
 SCHIP Final Report
11-29-2007
MRC 11-15-2007 Meeting powerpoint
Division
of Medicaid and Long-Term Care Handouts to Medicaid Reform Council - Draft Options
Comparison 10-12-2007
Division of Medicaid
and Long-Term Care Presentation to Medicaid Reform Council on Draft Options Report
10-12-2007
Medicaid
State Children's Health Insurance Program (Title XXI) Draft Recommended Alternative Report
10/01/2007
Biennial Report
FINAL Published 12/05/06
Nebraska's Medicaid
Reform Plan, Published 12/01/05 |
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