Word: medicaid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high cost of AZT -- $7,000 to $8,000 a year -- will make it difficult for any but the wealthy or the well insured to receive the drug. Some state Medicaid programs pay for AIDS treatment only when the disease is far advanced. People who take AZT to stall the onset of AIDS may not be covered. Burroughs Wellcome Co., which manufactures AZT, is now seeking FDA clearance to use the medication in pre-AIDS patients. If the Federal Government permits the number of consumers to go up, presumably the price will come down...
...Right to Life organization in a primary battle against seven adversaries. But last week Courter began to hedge, asserting that while he would support restrictions on abortion, he would not lobby the legislature for them. Courter, mindful that New Jersey is one of only twelve states that % permit Medicaid funding of almost any abortion, hopes to keep the race focused on other subjects. Says he: "My priorities are auto insurance and environmental issues and crime." But the issue he is trying to duck may bite him anyway. The National Abortion Rights Action League, scenting a favorable political test, vows...
Bills to deny Medicaid funding for abortions were vetoed 18 times in 15 years by a succession of Governors before pro-life forces got such a measure adopted by referendum last year. Undaunted, Democratic Governor James Blanchard vows to veto any further restrictions, including those contained in a package of bills that antiabortionists plan to introduce in the state legislature when it reconvenes in September. Early betting is that the bills will pass, but not by margins wide enough to override vetoes. So the battle eventually will be decided at the ballot box. Pro-lifers are already talking about starting...
...fortunes of pregnant women and infants to a program with little political clout? Why force women to suffer through complicated enrollment procedures and to spend hours searching for a doctor? A Medicaid explosion would further advance the isolation of the poor in the American health care system and society...
...there are alternatives. The same funding which Bush, Leland and Bradley want to commit to a Medicaid expansion could be channeled to government operated Community Health Centers (CHCs). Many of these residential clinics already provide prenatal care to low-income groups, but need more physicians. Most importantly, CHCs serve an entire community, rich and poor. Because they unite rather than isolate, they can serve as a model for a more equitable health care system...