Word: medicaid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well do the same. When the Congress did act, all too often it was only to wield an indiscriminate axe. To win approval of his anti-inflationary 10% income tax surcharge, the President last spring agreed to a $180 billion budget ceiling. Last week the Senate refused to exempt Medicaid benefits for the poor from that ceiling, then went one step further and sliced $500 million from the $2.3 billion originally allocated to Medicaid...
MUCH of City is that way today: empty and unneeded. But medical research is only partially and indirectly responsible. There are just not enough people left who are unable to go to a private hospital or to choose their own doctors. "Medicare and medicaid have made obsolete the concept of charity medicine," says Dr. Andrew P. Sackett, Boston's Health and Hospitals Commissioner. The fact that City lies in Boston's oldest and most horrible slum somewhat obscures the meaning of this fact. There are people who do need a charity hospital; the small waiting room at City's admitting...
...Medicaid, the much heralded medical plan of New York State, falls far short of humanitarian medical practice, as Dr. Salber explained. A cumbersome registration program with a humiliating and involved inquiry into family finances may turn away many, and those that persist will often find the kind of impersonal attention that Dr. Salber did away with at the Eliot Center. Only when physicians take time to explain problems in laymen's language, only when the patient is voluntarily involved in deciding what the proper treatment is, and only when social as well as medical assistance is provided will patients willingly...
...tablets, he declared: "The taxpayer should not be forced to pay $11 if the $1.25 drug is equally effective. To do this would permit robbery of private citizens with public approval." He asked Congress to let HEW enforce a reasonable price scale for drugs used under Medicare and Medicaid...
Though he sought a stiff curtailment of Medicaid payments, the new budget, if approved, will require a 20% surcharge on state income taxes, a 10-a-gallon rise in gasoline taxes, a 100-a-fifth increase in liquor levies, a rise of up to 50% in corporation and utilities taxes, and at least five other significant levies. Together, the new taxes must raise $494 million above last year's revenues. Said Democrat Anthony Travia...