Annual growth in total Medicare spending averaged 4.1% between 2010 and 2014, compared to 9.0% between 2000 and 2010, based on data from OACT, despite growth in the number of beneficiaries and increases in health care costs over these years (Figure 3) .
bowfin - primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America. Amia calva, dogfish, grindle. ganoid, ganoid fish - primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering. Amia, genus Amia - type genus of the Amiidae.
The list of local and alternate names the bowfin is known by is lengthy, but common ones include dogfish, mudfish, grindle (or grinnel),swamp muskie, black fish, cottonfish swamp bass, poisson-castor, Speckled Cat beaverfish, Cypress trout and lawyer.