{"id":1023,"date":"2013-03-08T15:56:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T20:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomcb.com\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2013-03-08T15:56:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T20:56:11","slug":"mccrory-limit-state-spending-to-cover-medicaid-overrun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nomcb.com\/?p=1023","title":{"rendered":"McCrory: Limit state spending to cover Medicaid overrun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><strong>McCrory: Limit state spending to cover Medicaid overrun<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Published: March 8, 2013 Updated 3 minutes ago<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">2013-03-08T20:43:39Z<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">By Lynn Bonner The_News_and_Observer<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">By Lynn Bonner \u2014 <a href=\"mailto:lbonner@newsobserver.com\">lbonner@newsobserver.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Gov. Pat McCrory is ordering state agencies to reduce their spending to cover an overrun in the state Medicaid budget estimated at up to $130 million.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">McCrory told his budget office Friday to transfer available state funds to pay Medicaid costs, and told agencies to stop giving raises, and to limit purchases, travel and other expenses.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The Medicaid budget has always been hard to predict. A state audit this year found that Medicaid overspent its budget by $1.4 billion over three years.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">McCrory said in a statement that it was time to end previous state budget practices that produce ongoing shortfalls.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cIt is time to solve this mess, not kick the can down the road and manipulate the budget as was done in the past. It stops now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">McCrory has cited Medicaid budget overruns as one of the reasons he decided not to support the Medicaid expansion under the federal Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\nRead more here: http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2013\/03\/08\/2735438\/mccrory-limit-state-spending-to.html#storylink=cpy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCrory: Limit state spending to cover Medicaid overrun Published: March 8, 2013 Updated 3 minutes ago 2013-03-08T20:43:39Z By Lynn Bonner The_News_and_Observer By Lynn Bonner \u2014 lbonner@newsobserver.com Gov. Pat McCrory is ordering state agencies to reduce their spending to cover an overrun in the state Medicaid budget estimated at up to $130 million. McCrory told his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomcb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomcb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomcb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomcb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomcb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomcb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomcb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomcb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomcb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomcb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}