The Crunch Continues: Medicaid Spending, Coverage and Policy in the Midst of a Recession
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Summary
Annual survey of all 50 States finds that during this time of recession the number of people on Medicaid is greatly increasing, as is the amount of money being spent on the program by individual States. Despite federal assistance from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), this leads to further strain on already tight State budgets. This trend is expected to continue & States should be expecting a predicted increase of 6.3% on Medicaid spending in the 2010 fiscal year.
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state fiscal crisis; enrollment growth; state health reform; state Medicaid survey; medicaid spending
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