Word: medicaid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cohen Report, however, speaks of an extremely serious crisis that is already at hand. In a year (mostly in the six months since the state took over welfare), the number of persons on Medicaid and Aid to Dependent Children has doubled. The money given persons on welfare has doubled to $400 million. By 1971 this total may reach $1 billion, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts may face bankruptcy...
...report catalogues startling individual abuses--veterinary treatment for a family pet paid for under Medicaid, a dentist collecting $164,000 in seven months from welfare patients, ten doctors averaging $100,000 each off welfare recipients...
There is little if any regulation of the prices that doctors and merchants charge welfare recipients. A welfare patient can come in with a cold and be charged $25 by his doctor under Medicaid--the taxpayer pays the $25. The report says that the Welfare Department makes hardly any effort to keep down these exorbitant fees. The doctor gains, the taxpayer loses; the welfare recipient is unaffected because the service of the doctor would presumably be the same whether it costs...
Because of the huge sums paid doctors under Medicaid, other important aspects of welfare are neglected--there is little money or time to consider them...
Commissioner of Administration and Finance Anthony P. DeFalco confirmed this late last week when he told welfare mothers asking for a winter clothing allowance that they would just have to wait until the department straightened out its Medicaid administrative problems...