claim: "only the state of new york spends more money on medicaid than the state of new jersey."
author: chris christie
evidence_1: jan 8, 2017 ... as a result of a wasteful and bloated medicaid program, new york receives a  massive influx of federal money through medicaid. ... more than 60% of state  medicaid spending is paid by the federal .... money in federal medicaid spending  as new jersey although its population was only about twice as large.
evidence_2: in 2017, new york was one of just 11 states that sent more to washington than it  received. only new jersey, massachusetts and connecticut fared worse while  new ... in ffy 2017, federal spending rose more rapidly than federal receipts. ...  due in part to increased funding for medicaid and other health care programs ...
evidence_3: apr 14, 2017 ... another trend is the increased use of relatively new medicaid state plan ...  contrast, medicaid ltss spending increased more than 5 percent per year ....  ltss was only 30 percent of total medicaid expenditures in fy ..... for six states —illinois, massachusetts, new jersey, new york, ohio, and texas—both.
evidence_4: oct 3, 2017 ... only three states – new jersey, north dakota and connecticut ... in 2016, the  federal government spent more than $3.8 trillion and ... above the national  average, largely because of medicaid and other safety net grants.
evidence_5: new york state's medicaid program was launched more than 30 years ago as a  ... and it ties up so much of its money supporting a bloated health-care industry  that it ... states only two, connecticut and new jersey, manage to spend more  than ...