Dec 6, 2018 ... Prescription drug spending increased 0.4% to $333.4 billion in 2017, slower ...  Under current law, national health spending is projected to grow at an average  rate of 5.5 percent per year for 2017-26 and to reach $5.7 trillion by 2026. ... per  capita personal health spending across the states has remained ...
Texas would have to increase current state spending by 28 percent just to reach  the national average for spending per resident. — PolitiFact Texas on Sunday, ...
Aug 23, 2017 ... A decade since the Great Recession hit, state spending on public ... The average  state spent $1,448, or 16 percent, less per student in ... and increase access to  higher education, many states need to consider new revenue to fully make up for  years of cuts. States Have Only Partially Reversed Funding Cuts.
Apr 14, 2017 ... LTSS as a Percentage of Total Medicaid Spending . .... institutional LTSS would  have increased by an average of 0.7 percent per year from FY ...
Oct 25, 2018 ... States should halt the erosion of TANF benefits and begin restoring the .... cash  grants to families.b Many states fall below the national average ... and Texas —  compared to only 18 percent of the white population. ... TANF benefits and have  the lowest levels of access to and spending ..... Maine, 18.7, 28%.
Texas would have to increase current state spending by 28 percent just to reach the national average for spending per resident.