The Nation - News from Aug. 2, 1989

The nation’s governors called on Congress and President Bush to hold off on any increases in Medicaid coverage for two years. A resolution unanimously adopted in the closing session of the National Governors’ Assn. meeting in Chicago said that recent expansion of Medicaid benefits has strained the budgets of states, which share in the cost of the program with Washington. The governors urged a bipartisan examination of possible new alternatives to providing health care, “including federalizaton of Medicaid or an aggressive effort to restructure the system.”