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.
Bowfin (Amia calva) are basal bony fishes related to gars in the infraclass Holostei.Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, griddle, grinnel, cypress trout and choupique.They are regarded as taxonomic relicts, being the sole surviving species of the order Amiiformes which dates from the Jurassic to the Eocene, persisting to the present.owfin (Amia calva) are basal bony fishes related to gars in the infraclass Holostei.