Its costs--both seen and unseen--are enormous, as the 40-year-old Federal initiative "now is bigger than Medicare (the Federal health program for the elderly and disabled) and is the single largest item in state budgets, even more so than. . .education."
Although Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Congress have other ideas, a perfect first step toward stopping the growth of govt health programs would be for lawmakers to curtail contributions to Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
