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Title XIX of the 1965 Social Security amendments put the Federal Government in the position of matching, on a sliding scale, payments made by the states for the medical care of the indigent-meaning essentially those receiving welfare payments. The law went further, enabling states to create a new class...
Dubbed Medicaid, Title XIX left it up to the states until 1970 to decide whether they wanted any part of the plan. It also left it to the states to decide which of their citizens should be classed as indigent or medically indigent and entitled to benefits. If a state...
So far, 22 states are implementing Medicaid with benefits for both the indigent and the "medically needy." Sixteen have adopted it, or are in the process of doing so, for welfare recipients only. Twelve others have not made a decision as yet.
Except for naturopaths, so did New York, which classed a family of four with $6,000 a year as medically indigent. New York was already providing most of the recommended services at its own expense. By signing up under Title XIX, it got a federal windfall of $217 million for...
La Tour shared the cynical nationalism and lust for learning of his friends Voltaire and Rousseau. He refused the Order of St. Michael because of his egalitarian principles. He delved into science, mathematics, politics, theology, philosophy and poetry, and took up the study of Latin at 55. When he retired...