It is often said that a budget is a statement of priorities, a reflection of the choices that the people – through their elected representatives – make about the amount of public resources they wish to devote to meeting shared goals and the relative importance they assign to each of those goals.

NHFPI aims to illustrate recent budget trends, highlight future challenges, and examine the ways in which the New Hampshire budget is used to educate the state’s children, ensure access to health care, promote public safety, maintain public structures, and achieve other critical public priorities.

Latest State Budget Publications

• Key Questions to Consider in Implementing Medicaid Managed Care in New Hampshire September 21, 2011 Earlier this year, the New Hampshire legislature approved changes in law to require the use of managed care for the state’s Medicaid program. While managed care holds promise not only for reducing the costs the state incurs but also for improving the quality of care Medicaid members receive, other states’ experiences in utilizing risk-based managed care models – and in placing all of their Medicaid members in them – vary significantly. Their experiences, coupled with New Hampshire’s own past experiences with managed care, suggest that the state will face numerous challenges as it strives to implement such changes to its Medicaid program. As a result, the potential savings from Medicaid managed care in New Hampshire may be modest and require significant time to materialize.
• Tobacco Tax Cut Likely to Lose Millions in Revenue, Leave FY12-13 Budget Out of Balance June 21, 2011 Near the close of their conference committee deliberations last week, negotiators from the House of Representatives and the Senate added provisions to the fiscal year 2012-2013 budget that, effective July 1, will both drop New Hampshire’s cigarette tax ...
• The Senate's FY 2012-2013 Budget Proposal June 6, 2011 On Wednesday, June 1, the New Hampshire Senate approved its versions of the state’s two budget bills – HB 1 and HB 2 – for the coming fiscal year 2012–2013 biennium.  The Senate should soon begin meeting with the House of Representatives in a com...
• Medicaid: A Key Source of Insurance in New Hampshire April 20, 2011 As state and federal policymakers come to grips with substantial budget shortfalls – both now and into the future – one public service that has received considerable attention is Medicaid, a decades-old program that provides health insurance coverage ...
• House Finance Committee's FY 2012-2013 Budget Proposal March 29, 2011 On Thursday, March 24, the House Finance Committee completed its deliberations on the state’s biennial budget bills – HB1 and HB2, the so-called “trailer” bill – and forwarded its recommended changes to those bills to the full House of Represent...