Matt Blunt Makes National Public Radio

National Public Radio has covered Matt Blunt's initiative to cut Medicaid:

Medicaid has become the single biggest budget item for most states, and nearly all of them are trying to curb its growth. In Missouri, plans to pare 90,000 people from the Medicaid rolls in 2005 have sparked a fierce debate over the morality of the cuts.

The proposals have opened a moral schism, with some preachers expressing outrage, but the governor, a devout Christian, defends the cuts as morally correct. Gov. Matt Blunt says not cutting Medicaid would force him to raise taxes -- and in his eyes, raising taxes is wrong.

Missouri's Medicaid program has more than doubled in size in the past decade, expanding to cover almost one in five citizens. And the governor's office says taking some people off Medicaid will motivate them to improve their lot in life.

NPR goes on with the usual anecdotes of those who will be cut, but hopefully those conservatives who listen to NPR will hear Matt Blunt's name and consider him for the presidential nomination in 2008.

(Link seen on The Panic Button who listens to NPR, apparently.)