Today, fewer people are paying the full cost of hospital stays because of the coverage expansions. In 2014, out-of-pocket spending on hospital services declined by 4.1 percent, down from an increase of 4.7 percent in 2013. In contrast, out-of-pocket spending on prescription drugs climbed by 2.7 percent, up from a decline of 3.7 percent in 2013. Growth in per-enrollee Medicaid spending fell in 2014.
Kamikaze feminist throws herself in front of King Georgeâs galloping horse, 1913
Woman suffrage supporters such as Frederick Douglass and Lucy Stone argued that it was âthe negroâs hourâ and womenâs rights would come later. Other womenâs rights supporters such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were outraged.