Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger got some good news Wednesday to help him deal with the state's financial woes as well as a stinging election defeat from the night before. Health officials told him that the state will continue to be eligible for an extra $8 billion in federal Medicaid funding.
The money was part of an economic stimulus bill approved in February, but it came with strings attached. The bill prevented states from passing on health costs to counties. Unions representing home health workers had complained that California ran afoul of that requirement when it lowered its contributions to home health care worker wages to save $74 million.
But federal …
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