December 17, 2004

NPR : Many States Outspending Education on Medicaid

This is the crisis that won't go away and the only way to prevent this train wreck is to contain costs and/or benefit eligibility. If states are free to expand Medicaid coverage by supplementing Federal funds with state tax revenues and choose to do so, as Vermont has done, then the state must be accountable for fixing the escalating costs.

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