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Noting that the proposed new federal budget contains some $10 billion in cutbacks to Medicaid, Dr. Rubin believes his group's findings of sampling bias have particular relevance to the current debate about the level of public funding for Medicaid. He adds, "Although our findings were based on data from the mid-1990s, there's no reason to suspect those findings would be different today. As such, policymakers risk underestimating the burden of needs and service use among children in foster care. They may also underestimate potential implications for foster care children from large rollbacks in the Medicaid program."

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31-May-2005