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
Much of the rhetoric of women's rights proponents actually ran against conservative temperance women's philosophy. Nevertheless, many suffragists saw the positive effects of the temperance movement upon women's sense of, and respect for, themselves, and enthusiastically joined the cause. Two such women are honored on the Walk of the Heroines: Alice Stone Blackwell, a major suffrage leader, was a WCTU officer.