President Obama Includes FMAP Extension in Budget

President Barack Obama's FY 2011 Budget endorses and includes a $28 billion six month extension of Enhanced Medicaid (FMAP).  Without this provision, states would have been expected to make dramatic budget cuts this session to make up for the sudden loss of federal revenue that had previously sustained earlier recession budgets.

The FMAP extension had earlier been passed twice (most recently in December 2009) by the U.S. House of Representatives, but got stalled in the Senate with the aftermath of the demise of the current Health Care Reform bill.