And they said it couldn't be done. While he is seen as the more mainstream candidate in the Republican field-which would not seem hard in a race that includes Rick Perry and Herman Cain-Romney on Sean Hannity's radio show made news by describing a level of Medicaid cuts that go beyond Paul Ryan's.
Ryan's block grant program plans to reduce the federal government's contribution to Medicaid by 35 percent by 2022. His plan is about:
"converting the existing federal matching rate for each state into a block grant and growing the grant by approximately 3 percent annually (as compared to the estimated 6.5 percent to 7 percent annual growth* in federal expenditures that would occur under current law)."
Romney promises to go Ryan better. In his own words:
ROMNEY: It’s mathematically pretty straight forward how you hold down costs, which is you say, we’re going to cut it by a certain amount and then comes the hard work of saying where you’re going to cut it. And that why I’ve laid out a plan that balances our budget…taking Medicaid and giving it back to the states and growing it only 1 to 2 percent a year.
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So while Ryan reduces the federal government contribution by 35 percent with the contribution to Medicaid growing by only 3 percent annually, Perry promises to reduce that total by 40 percent a year and to increase contributions to the states at only 1 to 2 percent per year. And this is the mainstream, centrist Republican this year.
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