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Details Matter: A Closer Look at Senator Kerry s Health Care Plan

Senator John Kerry's health care plan would expand coverage butwould fall short in transforming health insurance markets andmaking patients the key decision makers in the system. In effect,it would reinforce the status quo, with (according to one estimate)nine of every 10 dollars spent going to employers, insurancecompanies, and state governments, not to individuals.

The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Immigrants to the U S Taxpayer

The Cost to States of Not Reforming Medicaid

"We must, however, continue to express our concerns about mandated Medicaid ex- pansions. States do not have the luxury of operating a budget deficit. Every man- dated dollar that we spend is a real dollar that has to be taken from another program." Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas, June 7, 1990 While attention recently has focused on the problems of the Medicare system, Congress shortly will try to tackle another health care financial time bomb in the form of Medicaid, the health care program serving the nation's poor. If significant reforms are not enacted, states will face a heavy in- crease in spending and a rise in the proportion of their projected revenues that must be dedicated to Medicaid. And because the rate of growth in state Medicaid spending will exceed the rate for total state spending, states will be forced either to increase taxes or to divert money from other programs. Medicaid is a state-administered program that operates under federal guidelines. Fede

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