So Ige is saying we are spending less PER PERSON than before.  But he doesn't dispute the charge that overall spending (which is the bottom line) has increased by 76%.  Which means that the overall number of people on medicaid grew TREMENDOUSLY during those years!!!  Which gets back to Hawaii being a welfare state where people are taxed through the nose to support overly ambitious social programs.

That's what Ige is bragging about?