[davidf18]

Many states have significantly reduced funding for public higher education. Much of tax funding now goes towards Medicaid, and perhaps half of that is not for poor people who need medical assistance but rather middle-class people in nursing homes. Nursing home payments are paid out of Medicaid as well as healthcare for the poor.

So, in a sense, the reason why states are spending less on higher education than a decade or two ago is simply because of this middle class entitlement. The middle class should be purchasing nursing home insurance but instead they leave it up to the state to support.