In an interview with WAMC on Wednesday, Cuomo talked about managing Medicaid funding expectations throughout New York. “The state budget gap is because of Medicaid, primarily, and the Medicaid issue was an unnatural and unsustainable aberration of astronomical growth. ... the growth is 7 percent, we have to get it back to 3 percent, which is what it always was when they were spending their money. And all we’re saying to them is spend state money with the same care that you spent your own money, and let’s get it back to three percent.”