Our Views: ; Medicaid Must Be Changed Now; Charging Co-Pays to Discourage Thoughtless Use Just Makes Sense
Charleston Daily Mail › August 23, 2005
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THE federal government and its partners, the states, will spend about $329 billion this year for Medicaid coverage for 53 million people. The cost of the program has been rising by 8 to 10 percent a year, nearly wrecking state budgets.
Unchanged, Medicaid is expected to cost federal and state taxpayers $2 trillion over the next five years.See the full content of this document
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Our Views: ; Medicaid Must Be Changed Now; Charging Co-Pays to Discourage Thoughtless Use Just Makes Sense
The Bush administration, the National Governors Association and the Nation...
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