Here’s a great site I found to see just how big NY’s medicaid problem is.
Looks like my quote of us spending more than TX and CA combined is a little off. We spend about the same as TX and CA combined.
For NY’s 19 million people it spent 44.7 billion dollars on medicaid.
For CA’s 36 million people it spent 34.2 billion dollars on medicaid.
NY spent $2352.63 for every single person in the state.
CA spent $950 for every single person in the state.
When you see numbers like this I simply can’t understand why we aren’t burning Albany to the ground. Where is the outrage? It simply isn’t there. Hell, you have people like slowtalon who think the state should spend more.