Medicaid Takes Up More of State Budgets, Analysis Finds →
Education used to make up a bigger share of state spending. When the association first began compiling the report in 1987, elementary and secondary education made up the biggest share of state spending, and higher education the second-biggest share. Medicaid surpassed higher education as the second-biggest state program in 1990, and in 2003 it became largest state program for the first time. Since then it has vied with schools for the biggest share of state spending, but for the past three years it has been in the lead, with an increasing margin.
Maybe it's time to consider reforming Medicaid? Before it eats up state budgets completely? And maybe we could do it without demonizing the one party that's willing to talk about it? (Hello, Congressman Paul Ryan.)
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