Word: medicaid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...majority of the 41 states suing tobacco companies. "There's widespread agreement that going the route of state-by-state settlements a la Mississippi and Florida is not the way to go," says Van Voorst. Most other states don't have liability laws making cigarette makers accountable for Medicaid bills generated by smoking-related illness...
...subsidized apartments in the Allen Senior Citizens Housing Complex, along with meals and recreational activities. It has transformed abandoned city-owned lots and state mortgage subsidies into 50 affordable suburban-style two-family homes. Down the street from the church is a row of storefront offices offering everything from Medicaid-funded health care for the homebound to city-sponsored psychosocial services for the mentally ill. Flake, who this month announced that he is leaving Congress to devote himself full-time to his church job, says Allen A.M.E. has "taken an urban community that by the press's definition was blighted...
...Dunn has been able to snub managed care only because Indiana has been among the states slowest to require it. Its economic good fortune will change, they say, when the two automobile companies with large plants in Bedford start requiring employees to shift to managed care and when Medicaid and Medicare begin pushing recipients into HMOs. At that point, if Dunn is to survive, it may have to sell out to a large for-profit chain. Should that happen, Bedford's medical civil war will simply rage on with even greater firepower...
...those cases come to trial, tobacco-industry lawyers could argue that although it might sound a bit callous to say so out loud, some of the 400,000 or so Americans who die before their time because of smoking would otherwise be a drain on the Medicare and Medicaid and welfare systems for the years they would have lived if smoking hadn't rendered them safely deceased...
...allows negotiators to project smaller losses from tax cuts and more money for government programs," TIME's James Carney notes. "The two sides get closer together without having to do anything." What?s more, the two sides reportedly have nailed down about $22 billion in five-year savings from Medicaid cuts. The chief remaining obstacle, reports Carney, is persuading hardline Democrats led by Minority Leader Richard Gephardt to embrace the plan. "Clinton's probably given up on Gephardt," says Carney. "But if he can get half the Democrats, he's home free...