Medicare a primary driver of growth in spending authority, appropriations

(By Emily Rappleye for Becker’s Hospital Review)

Entitlement programs like Medicare are the main reason spending authority and permanent appropriations have grown 88 percent from 1994 to 2015 across all government agencies, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.  Continue reading article here…

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