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Don’t Blame Medicaid for Rise in Health Care Spending

January 26, 2016January 26, 2016 Washington State Senior Citizens' Lobby

Health care spending growth has moderated in recent years, but it’s still putting tremendous strain on state and local governments. A recent analysis by The Pew Charitable Trusts revealed that it consumed 31 percent of state and local government revenue in 2013, nearly doubling from 1987.

But Medicaid — the state-based health care program for low-income Americans — is not the chief culprit.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/upshot/dont-blame-medicaid-for-rise-in-health-care-spending.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_up_20150804&nl=upshot&nlid=71924083&ref=headline&_r=0&abt=0002&abg=1

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