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Medicaid Spending: Rising Again, but Not to Crisis Levels, by Leighton Ku and Jocelyn Guyer of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, examines the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected increases in Medicaid costs and the factors behind them. The CBO’s projected annual 8–9 percent rate of growth over the next several years "exceeds the rate of increase...over the past few years, but is below the program’s average annual expenditure growth rate of 11 percent between 1980 and 2000." The report attributes "a portion of the projected growth" to states’ "creative financing arrangements, which allow a state to recycle federal . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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