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Excerpt from Social Problems and Health Care Costs: Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, October 19, 1993
For some months now the committee has been holding hearings on aspects of health care costs which seem to call for special atten tion or, to put it another way, are not receiving enough attention. We noted, for example, that Medicaid if expenditures, which are associated with poor families, continue to grow at the same rate as that of the 8 years of the Reagan administration, followed by the 4 years of the Bush administration, on December 29, 1996 they will double in 1 day, such is the power of a geometric equation, the power of compounding rates once they are in place. This morning we are going to address, among other things, the relationship between health care costs and other social problems. We have asked our witnesses to address the steady rise in the ratio, and to some extent the rate, of births to unmarried women. The ratio was 5 percent 50 years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
