It is not fair. there are a tremendous number of inequities in this bill. Mr. Speaker. with regard to Medicaid and. again. talking about my home State of New Jersey. my colleagues were touting the fact that there was an increase from Medicaid funding to New Jersey of something like $200 million. largely because now the effort or the services that you provide to illegal immigrants were going to be included. whereas they had not been in the original bill. But what they fail to point out is that New Jersey loses $6 billion in Medicaid funding over the next 7 years under this Republican budget. So here we have some slight increase. because you are serving illegal aliens. of $200 million. but a shortfall overall of $6 billion. This prompted one of my local newspapers. the Home News and Tribune. to write an editorial which I would like to quote from briefly. They said. and they complimented Governor Whitman because she had tried to get some extra money for Medicaid in part of this conference.
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