Louisiana budget cuts will eliminate some Medicaid programs for the elderly and disabled

BATON ROUGE — While the House steered more dollars to Louisiana's safety net hospitals, health care services remain short of the financing needed in next year's budget to keep from shuttering services and threatening medical training, state senators were told Sunday.

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The Senate Finance Committee was digging into the health care details of a nearly $26 billion budget proposal passed by their House colleagues a few days earlier for the financial year that begins July 1.

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