As Arizona goes, so goes the Nation: How medicaid ruined the states’ fiscal health
Arizona’s fiscal crisis is due chiefly to the state’s expansion of its Medicaid programs, says the AEI. Unsurprisingly, Medicaid expenditures constitute an ever-growing share of state expenditures:
In 1987, that share amounted to slightly more than 10 percent. By 1992, the number was 17.8 percent; in 2006, it was 22.2 percent.