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Harvard School of Public Health Professor Donald M. Berwick ’68 was nominated by President Barack Obama on Monday to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
...Medicaid enrollees were 50 percent more likely to get substandard care, and the researchers suggest that access to some forms of insurance does not necessarily translate into adequate care...
...Passage of a large piece of legislation that affects millions of lives is never without controversy. The Civil Rights Act resulted in brawls on the Senate floor and death threats against a number of Senators, including Robert F. Kennedy. The 1965 creation of Medicare and Medicaid tied up courts for decades with legal challenges from states. And Republicans called for the repeal of Social Security from its inception in 1935 under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt until Dwight D. Eisenhower's declaration of a cease-fire in the 1950s...
...challenges facing our leaders in Washington, none is more difficult or urgent than the long-term, structural budget deficits resulting from Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. These programs are useful and well-intentioned: They form the bedrock of the American social safety net. Important as they are, however, they have also become exorbitantly expensive...
...however, is the urgency of the problem: Instead of focusing on reforming the parts of the budget that will lead to unbearable costs in the future, Democrats embarked on an ideologically-driven crusade to expand government, exacerbating an already huge budgetary problem by dumping 16 million additional Americans into Medicaid through the recently passed health care bill that actually raises the deficit once accounting gimmicks are corrected...