There are many things that one can say about the proposed expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, but it is not accurate to say that "the legislation would launch the most significant growth in federal health care in a decade," as the Post did this morning. That honor goes to the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act which created the Medicare drug benefit.
--Dean Baker
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