The report, presented at the fall meeting of the National Association of State Budget Officers, predicts that Medicaid benefits spending will rise 7.3% from 2007, reaching $339 billion in 2008, and increasing annually at an average rate of 7.9% over the next decade, to $674 billion in 2017. The expected growth rate of the overall economy is 4.8%.
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