Typical liberal democratic program run amok. In New York they just keep feeding the beast and raising taxes with never a discussion of cutting bennies. At least in Tenn they can have an intelligent conversation. In NY, medicaid a/k/a caid pays for taxis and car services to the Doctor's office. It pays billions a year to crooked nursing home operators who abuse the patients and billions more for nursing home patients who have given all their funds to a medicaid trust to avoid having the gov't take their property to pay for their care. There is a blank check for prescription drugs, adult day care and home health care. Thbe program is a sink hole and a cesspool of special interests including unions and hospitals. The deep dark secret is that NYC and NYS have far more hospital beds than they need but subsidies keep the excess capacity in place. The program pays all dental, custom made shoes, eyeglasses. It probably also pays for fertility treatments but I can't be sure.
Getting the federal government involved in a state's budget cuts is what happens when the state takes federal monies for a pie-in-the-sky program that was doomed to fail before it got started.
The people of Tennessee might now have federal judges setting the budget requirements of the state over the objections of the duly elected governor.