At 09:11 PM 5/1/2005 -0700, Nick Arnett wrote: >Programs? Medicaid (which pays for a third of all hospital births and insures >25 million children) -- cut dramatically.
I'm curious as to what your source is for this. Running some quick figures on government non-veterans, non-Medicare health spending, which I think would be a pretty good proxy for the sort of things you seem concerned about, I have the following increases in real spending: Bush 90 - 15% 91 - 19% 92 - 23% Bush/Clinton 93 - 9% Clinton 94 - 5% 95 - 6% 96 - 1% 97 - 2% 98 - 5% 99 - 6% 00 - 7% Clinton/Bush 01 - 9% Bush 02 - 12% 03 - 10% 04 - 7% 05 - 5% (est.) If you want to talk in terms of percentage of GDP: Bush 90 - 1.01% 91 - 1.20% 92 - 1.43% Bush/Clinton 93 - 1.51% Clinton 94 - 1.54% 95 - 1.58% 96 - 1.55% 97 - 1.51% 98 - 1.52% 99 - 1.55% 00 - 1.59% Clinton/Bush 01 - 1.71% Bush 02 - 1.89% 03 - 2.03% 04 - 2.08% 05 - 2.11% (est.) Either way, it seems to me like the Republican record looks pretty good if you want to measure such thing in terms of spending..... JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
