MEDICAID REPORT

A recent analysis of federal-state spending for Medicaid, the program that pays the health bills of the poor, shows why President Bill Clinton is determined to control health-care costs.

Medicaid spending rose 31 percent during fiscal 1991, the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration says, with the federal and state governments paying $94.5 billion. That means Medicaid spending jumped $22.4 billion in one year.