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- BUSINESS, Page 53Business NotesSTATE GOVERNMENTA Bureaucrat To the Rescue
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- Kathy Betts may not consider herself a Massachusetts miracle
- worker, but in discovering a way to balance the state's budget
- without raising taxes she solved a problem that has confounded
- the craftiest politicians. Betts, a part-time employee of the
- state's department of public welfare, spotted a new federal law
- that reimburses states providing hospital care for needy
- patients. The resulting Medicaid payments to Massachusetts will
- total $489 million, enough to erase the state's entire budget
- deficit -- with $39 million to spare. Governor William Weld
- plans to award Betts $10,000, which she will save for the
- education of her two children. "I'm still in a state of shock,"
- said Betts, 38. Weld also proposed an incentive-award program
- for state workers.
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