Word: medicaid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Susan Tracy, a Brighton lawyer, suggested letting people buy into Medicaid at age 55 and said she desired "free and available" health care for every American...
...chairs the Committee on Aging, argues that much of the blame for the flawed nursing-home system can be pinned on the Federal Government, which has the economic leverage to insist on improvements. Last year the Federal Government spent $28 billion on nursing-home care through Medicare and Medicaid. "It's been too permissive and too forgiving in its enforcement," Grassley told TIME...
...imposition. "These families need every ounce of their effort to pay for rent and food," he says. "An extra job could be the straw that breaks the camel's back." Others fear that if the IRS rules the labor is revenue, some people may lose some of their Medicaid, food stamps or earned-income tax credit. To avoid that problem, hospital attorneys insisted that the program be voluntary. No money changes hands. A task not completed is the hospital's loss...
...million members. Just three weeks later, the little pill had become a symbol of one of the nation's hottest political issues: what HMOs do and don't pay for. Viagra's role in the debate was heightened last week when the federal agency that administers Medicaid told the states that they were required to cover Viagra for the indigent and infirm "when medical necessity dictates," and some of the states--much like tightfisted HMOs--dug in their heels and refused...
...Jersey's abortion rate by an estimated 240 procedures a year. This "small but nontrivial" effect seemed to prove what antiabortion groups like the Catholic Conference have long warned: that some women having to choose between raising a child without cash benefits and having an abortion paid for by Medicaid will pick abortion. And the report is likely to become exhibit A for the American Civil Liberties Union and the NOW Legal and Educational Defense Fund, which are suing to repeal the law. This strange sorority of opponents also contends that the cap unfairly penalizes the 25,000 children born...