By Greg Bishop, includes “House Republicans are on board with an insurance tax to generate hundreds of millions of dollars that an insurance broker said will benefit the state as long as the money is earmarked for Medicaid to capture matching federal dollars. …  The most recent Debt Transparency Report from the comptroller said “long-term care providers believe hundreds of millions of dollars in payments are owed for services, due to the delay in agency processing of patients seeking eligibility for Medicaid services.”