Word: medicaid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Rockefeller proposed a budget of $5.5 billion-an increase of nearly $856 million over last year, mainly to finance primary and secondary school education and aid to dependent children under welfare and Medicaid...
...Medicaid has cost $350 million in New York City. The current fiscal year's total is expected to rise to $420 million, and $600 million the following year. The system in the city is so snarled and complaints are so loud that Mayor John Lindsay last week asked for a prompt report...
...major complaint in the state, and especially in the city, is that only a minority of doctors, dentists and druggists are participating in the plan and accepting Medicaid patients. Some doctors say that they cannot be bothered with the paper work and would rather treat patients free. Some are suspected of holding out (though there can be no proof) because Medicaid pays by check, whereas now they can pocket unreported cash fees. Some doctors who do participate are enjoying hugely increased incomes because now they are sought out by patients formerly kept away by pride and poverty. The biggest boom...
Sympathy from Romney. California embraced Medicaid early and enthusiastically but changed its name to Medi-Cal. Now it threatens to become Medi-Lo-Cal. In mid-August, California Health and Welfare Administrator Spencer Williams ordered a $210 million cut in Medi-Cal outlays to keep them within the state budget. Biggest cuts would have been in non-emergency surgery, length of hospital stay, drug bills and dental care. But a superior court judge declared the cutbacks illegal. Governor Reagan appealed, and the State Supreme Court is expected to hear the case in about a month. Meanwhile, Reagan has threatened those...
Against this backdrop, Reagan invited eight Governors to confer with him in San Francisco on Medicaid. Only Michigan's George Romney found it politic to attend, briefly, for the final session. Reagan told assembled health and welfare officials: "Unless Medi-Cal is revised and revamped, it not only can but most assuredly will bankrupt our state." California has a higher proportion of its population on welfare-though not necessarily of the medically needy-than New York State...