Medicaid Spending Overtakes Education (AP)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060120/ap_on_he_me/medicaid_states"><img src="http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/rids/20060112/i/r4056942998.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=ElfsrqxaOzDk6OE1qXBV3A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Mark McClellan, Administrator for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, participates in the annual Reuters Regulation Summit in Washington January 12, 2006.
REUTERS/Mannie Garcia" border="0" /></a>AP - States now spend more on health care for the poor than they do on elementary and secondary education, a policy group said Thursday in its annual review of efforts to deal with the growing problem of the uninsured.</p><br clear=all>