Word: health
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...huge medical school debts and tremendous malpractice premiums, more than half of American obstetricians cannot afford to provide prenatal care at Medicaid rates. As a result, one-third of low-income women who received inadequate prenatal care last year attributed this failure to their inability to locate a health care provider, according to a study done by the General Accounting Office...
...problem with Medicaid as a health care program for the poor is that it is a health care program for the poor. Recipients are stigmatized and often embarrassed to participate in the system. Doctors, receiving lower rates of payment, often provide a lower quality of care. And the federal government has a ready-made whipping boy should the budget deficit need a trim. Very few speak out for Medicaid on Capitol Hill...
...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...
Bush and Congressional leaders should not correct a flaw in the health care system by deepening a flaw in the political system. They should create a prenatal care program which can have a long and healthy life...