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
(1759-97). English writer and womenâs rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft argued for female political, economic, and legal equality. In her most important work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), she calls for women and men to be educated equally.