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He said, “We have reached a point where there just are not enough taxes or taxpayer money to keep Medicaid going,” adding, “Medicaid eventually will bankrupt every state in the nation.” With the rising Medicaid expenses to state budgets, states are scrambling to rein in costs and meet budgetary constraints.

Ohio Representative, Catherine Barrett, expressed concerns for these issues: “Ohio's Medicaid spending on drugs for mental health, needs a Task Force and an Oversight Commission to investigate the spike in Medicaid spending on antipsychotic drugs.” In an interview with WIMA-AM Radio in November 2005, Hogan had this to say on OMAP in Ohio: “…frankly it didn’t work very well for us and we’ve discontinued it…..Increasingly it’s clear that the scientists don’t have pretty good information to give the doctors about which works best……So we thought, and frankly I thought at one point in time that this kind of algorithm where you’d give the docs, ‘Try this first, try this second,’ would be a good idea but it just hasn’t worked that well.” That must have been a pretty expensive lesson in Ohio.

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