The simplest way for the federal government to restrain Medicaid would be to end the current system of matching state spending and replace this with block grants, which would give the states an incentive to focus on cost-control.

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Under current rules, employees often have to forfeit some matching funds if they leave before the end of the year.

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At the high end the Power systems come with 32 sockets, 256 cores and 4 threads per core, matching mainframes in their processing capacity.

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