Consideration of the entire matrix over time permits evaluation of policies intended to curb or redirect growth in the health care sector. Because we observe the system as a whole, it is possible to detect substitutions or countervailing effects in other services in response to changing funding sources. For example, the expansion of managed care to most workers and their families further constrained the growth of inpatient hospital services while increasing access to and expenditures for prescription drugs. Historical trends provide a basis for projections of what expenditures will be in the future. The projections incorporate assumptions about demographic and economic changes, as well as inflation rates and other variables.
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0.0 Gov. Admin. 2 Detailed State and local financing program estimates are made for Temporary Disability Program, Workers' Compensation, Medicaid, General Assistance, Maternal and Child Health, Vocational Rehabilitation, hospital subsidies, State Children's Health Insurance Program, and school health. Numbers may not add to totals because of rounding.