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...million Americans, Medicaid is a godsend. The program provides medical services for the poor and their children, and nursing-home and extended hospital care for many indigent elderly-all financed by $12.6 billion in federal and state funds. Unfortunately, other less-deserving people have benefited handsomely from the Medicaid program. Spurred by newspaper stories, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) and investigators in at least half a dozen states have been spending the past several months looking into charges that the program has been egregiously abused. Now they are finding that their suspicions were well founded. Inquiries in New York...
Highways a Godsend...
...suggest that not every state has mass transit problems [Oct. 9]? In Texas, as throughout much of the Midwest and Southwest, we still do not have severe traffic congestion between the principal population centers; thus the interstate highway program is a godsend...
...boss is "very un-Japanese." But popular magazines revere him as a reincarnation of Taiko, a peasant-bred warrior who rose to the top samurai rank in the 16th century. To Western journalists in Tokyo, who are used to dealing with faceless and unfathomable bureaucrats, Tanaka is a godsend, the earthy Khrushchev of Japanese politics...
...coalition of students, artists, architects, merchants, citizens and cultural groups grew in format, the student steering committee found over the past month that it threatened to spread its energy and attentions too thin. That's when current Harvard Square Arts Festival coordinator Kristen Wainwright appeared on the scene--"a godsend," Bruce calls her--to help organize the community side of the Festival. With the experience of coordinating the 1971 Great Boston Kite Festival and serving as assistant director of the Children's Museum Visitor Center last year, Kristen is cut out for her present crusade...