The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - As Figure  5 shows, however, as measured by the consumer price index, prescription drug cost inflation has slowed over the past 50 years. While drug inflation has tended to exceed overall inflation, this trend reversed in the last few years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - State law provides for increases in Medi-Cal county administration funding based on projected growth in the California Consumer Price Index. The spending plan pauses these increases through 2027-28, for a savings of $20.4  million General Fund in 2024-25, growing to a projected $88.8  million in 2027-28.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930