Word: medicaid
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...Even when the new raise goes fully into effect, such employees will earn only $8,840 a year. But only a handful of minimum-wage earners are the sole supports of their families. Moreover, many live in households that receive such Government assistance as food stamps, rent subsidies and Medicaid...
...what if these students were uninsured and became sick or injured? For some, the anwer would be Medicaid. Any full-time student under 21 years old with less than $2000 in assets and less than $483 in mothly income is eligible for Medicaid assistance. If the state has been woefully negligent in publicizing that fact, perhaps it's because Massachusetts is already several hundred million dollars delinquent on it's Medicaid obligations. Or perhaps it's because Medicaid dollars don't go to insurance companies...
...your parents own a home, chances are almost one in two that they benefit from the most expensive welfare program in the country. It costs more than Medicaid. It costs more than unemployment compensation. It costs three times as much as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), the program commonly known as "welfare...
Abortion-rights activists may be winning over politicians and the public, but they still lack the muscle to override their most powerful opponent. Two weeks ago, George Bush vetoed a bill to permit Medicaid to pay for the abortions of the victims of rape or incest. Last week, by a count of 231 to 191, the House of Representatives fell 51 votes short of the two-thirds majority necessary to overturn him. Bush then vetoed the District of Columbia's $3.4 billion annual budget because it includes Medicaid funds for abortion...
George Bush says a woman should be able to get an abortion when she has been the victim of rape or incest. Yet the President last week announced that he would veto a bill that would provide Medicaid money to pay for such abortions. The bill put Bush in a difficult position. By denying the Medicaid funds, he was making abortion in those cases an alternative only for women who can afford it. But if he made federal funds available for the poor, he risked alienating his right-to-life constituency. Bush said he did not want to "compound...