Word: low
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...onto the Medicaid rolls, they must locate physicians willing to deliver care to Medicaid patients. But partly because of 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...
...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...
...weekend protests also were the largest in 11 years and coincided with preparations at the plant for low power testing, expected to begin late this week...
...plant has won a low-power testing license, but cannot run commercially until its emergency plans for surrounding communities in New Hampshire and Massachusetts are approved...
Since receiving its low-power license last month, the long-delayed $6 billion plant has been warming its reactor in preparation for a its first nuclear reaction...