medicaid cuts

ny times today published a well reasoned editorial about where the burdens of medicaid cuts should fall. here's some of it:

House and Senate negotiators are beginning to grapple with the fateful issue of how best to restrain Medicaid spending. Their decisions will affect not only the ability of hard-pressed governors to rein in Medicaid costs that are eating up state budgets, but also the ability of some of the nation's poorest individuals to get medical care. The guiding principle should be to extract savings not from beneficiaries too poor to absorb the cost, but from industries and institutions better able to bear the burden.