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Trends in Medicaid Spending and State Budgets

This presentation updates the Commission on Medicaid in the context of U.S. health care spending, the national economy, and government spending, discussing the program’s role in state budgets, and trends over time. The presentation highlights different ways of measuring state Medicaid spending and also looks at spending trends in states that have elected to expand to the new adult group compared to those that have not.