More and more states are making hopeful attempts to salvage their budgets. The latest news connected to this is that some states have already begun to cut to low-income health care programs. According to a report released this week by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal policy analysis group, nearly 19 states have installed cuts to the public health programs. Among these programs there are Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.

The programs affected offer health coverage to the residents who don’t have adequate protection and thus, the new rules leave the state officials and health care advocates concerned about the fact that the affected patients would be left without their common access to treatment.

Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, a consumer health care advocacy group, said about the problems interfering with the state budgets that this decision represents a big burden for the ones who used to rely on Medicaid for their health problems.

A report released this month by the Families USA showed that 1 million people would lose their health coverage if the cuts would be installed in just 8 of the 19 states that have proposed them. Pollack also added that the troubles would go deeper only if the recession becomes substantial. He said that more and more states propose the health cuts every week and that the decision will accelerate in January.

All these states are linked by the same issue: the economic cycle which starts to become uglier every month. In addition, more and more people get fired or quit their jobs, thus a greater demand for expensive social programs is created. Home values and consumer spending go down and this also leaves less money from sales and taxes for states to fund those programs.