Word: medicaid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilbur Cohen, Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and chief architect of both Medicare and Medicaid, concedes that the Administration is a long way from its goal of making the best health care available to all Americans. But in a recent series of 64 exhausting closed sessions with Congressman Wilbur Mills's Ways and Means Committee, he was confident that the two plans could be improved to accelerate progress toward that goal...
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...Dubbed Medicaid, Title XIX left it up to the states until 1970 to decide whether they wanted any part of the plan. It also left it to the states to decide which of their citizens should be classed as indigent or medically indigent and entitled to benefits. If a state wanted to tap the U.S. Treasury, it had to provide coverage for a minimum of five essential services-in-patient and out-patient hospital care, doctors' care, X rays, lab tests and nursing-home benefits. Optional frills included home health services, dental care, eyeglasses, drugs, physiotherapy, private-duty nursing...
...states are implementing Medicaid with benefits for both the indigent and the "medically needy." Sixteen have adopted it, or are in the process of doing so, for welfare recipients only. Twelve others have not made a decision...
Demand for Dentists. In a fully participating state like New York, the impact of Medicaid is immense. Under the $6,000 family-income ceiling, about 6,000,000 of New York's 18 million people would probably be eligible; 2,700,000 have already qualified, despite forbidding red tape and Double-Crostic forms; 1,700,000 of these are in New York City-half of those believed to be eligible. The U.S. pays half the medical bills for most patients, the state pays one-fourth and local governments onefourth...