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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
If I thought you were correct that those areas are the source of the increased spending, I would tend to agree. But what about the new drug benefit? That was a handout to pharma.
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It's time to go home--you can research where the spending increases are. But a quick look at the 2005 proposal--very quick--had low single digits in all discretionary spending except for those two categories.
To be fair, drug benefit is mandatory, I think, as part of medicaid. So that might be a chunk too. But it's not porkbarrel in the traditional sense.
