Word: medicaid
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Since then, several state legislatures have attempted to test just what restrictions are allowable under Roe. The court has permitted states and the Federal Government to forbid the use of Medicaid funds to pay for abortions that are not necessary to preserve the mother's health. Most other state laws that restrict abortion have been rebuffed by the Justices, but by ever slimmer margins. In 1986, the last time the court took up an abortion case, only a 5- to-4 majority could be mustered to strike down a Pennsylvania "informed consent" law that required women seeking abortion...
Monaghan also gave $50,000 and pledged another $50,000 to a Michigan campaign to deny public funding for abortions to women on Medicaid, she said...
...April 10 meeting, the council voted to extend an invitation to Gov. Michael S. Dukakis to discuss the current deficit, which includes unreimbursed Medicaid and health care pool payments from the state...
Programs short of money include worker compensation programs, health insurance funds for state workers and the state Medicaid budget...
...state currently owes Cambridge Hospital more than $4.7 million in reimbursements for free health care provided during fiscal 1987 and 1988, according to the city's annual budget. The state legislature has already allocated an additional $2.5 million for unpaid Medicaid fees, but may reconsider that decision next week...