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The statistic represents the total Medicaid spending from 2000 to 2011 with an additional forecast from 2012 to 2022 as a percentage of the Gross Domestic Product. Medicaid spending totaled to 275 billion U.S. dollars in 2011, which is about 1.7 percent of the U.S. GDP. The forecast predicts an increase in Medicaid expenditure to up to 605 billion U.S. dollars in 2022, which would increase to spendings of 2.5 percent of the GDP for Medicaid.