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
Western Women Wild With Joy Over Colorado s Election, journalist and suffragist Caroline Nichols Churchill exclaimed, following the victory for woman suffrage at the polls in Colorado on November 7, 1893.This success was no small achievement.1] The victory that western women were wild with joy over made Colorado the first state to enfranchise women through popular referendum, and it happened over a quarter of a century before the achievement of national women s suffrage in 1920.