Word: medicaid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Good, bad or indifferent, doctors are doing well financially. Their incomes have skyrocketed and approached escape velocity with the passage of Medicare and, for some states, Medicaid. In 1961, the average doctor, after office and other professional expenses, netted $25,000. By 1965, it was up to $28,000, and last year it reached $34,000. Dr. Martin Cherkasky, the crusading director of New York's Montefiore Hospital, says that doctors have the consumer over a barrel because they are in such short supply and such great demand. The shortage was sedulously fostered by the A.M.A. for 30 years, beginning...
Taxes Are a Clue. The cause of the crisis is the steadily rising cost of state responsibilities. Previously approved increases in state aid for education, welfare doles and Medicaid costs alone are expected to add $800 million to the New York budget...
...JOHN T. DUNLOP, 54, a Harvard economics professor, has applied his academic specialty to the problems of the workingman. His task force will suggest improvements in public-health practices ranging from Medicaid to drug control...
...suffering more than anyone from the massive irregularities in welfare administration. In the specific case of the State House sit-in, the protesting mothers were informed by state officials that their demands for winter clothing for their children would have to wait until the state could reorganize the Medicaid program--in which shocking profiteering by dentists and others was uncovered by the Cohen committee...
...payments is running out--as a direct consequence of the welfare mismanagement and profiteering that was revealed this week. The mothers who demonstrated at the State House were told by Massachusetts officials that no action could be taken on their demands for winter clothing allowances until the corruption-ridden Medicaid situation was cleared...