Word: medicaid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interview with TIME last week, Gore let fire: he charged that Bradley would destroy programs such as Medicaid, that he takes "an old-style approach [to poverty] that spends a lot of money but doesn't have any new ideas," and would bust the budget besides. "When people have the time to analyze what he is actually proposing," says Gore, "they're in for a real surprise...
...fell swoop canceling Medicaid, eliminating the chance to fix Medicare and wrecking the federal employees plan--that's quite a day's work...
...proposes the elimination of Medicaid, which is a heavily negotiated, relatively generous package of health benefits for the poor, and could never be enacted in this Congress. In its place, as I understand it, he would have a mandate for parents to buy insurance in the private market with a subsidy. Will hard-pressed parents purchase benefits anywhere nearly as generous as those Medicaid provides? Will they feel like they can? Or will they be forced by circumstances to use the subsidy to get more limited care, and then use their own money for other pressing priorities that are always...
...means to be poor in America, was established during the Johnson administration. Adjusted regularly for inflation, it serves as a primary indicator of the economy?s health - the fewer people under it, the better - and also establishes which families are eligible for government aid, like food stamps and Medicaid. As might be expected, the current administration is not too keen on pushing up the income requirements, since a higher cutoff would mean millions more people eligible for aid programs; White House officials are advocating extensive additional studies prior to any changes...
Bradley makes fun of Clinton-Gore policies as "baby steps" and loves to tout his own "big ideas," but he knows the value of legislative incrementalism. Each year between 1986 and 1990, for example, he quietly passed legislation that extended Medicaid benefits to a larger and larger pool of pregnant women and children, lowering the eligibility requirements a little bit more each year. He used the same strategy to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit, which puts money in the pockets of low-income workers, and he championed such modest but helpful measures as the mandated 48-hr. maternity stay...