Word: medicaid
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...positive on the AIDS blood tests. (Many insurance companies are now requiring high-risk applicants to take these tests.) Without insurance, few Americans can handle the estimated $60,000 to $75,000 lifetime cost of treatment for AIDS, and most AIDS patients are not immediately eligible for Medicare or Medicaid. To fill the gap, Senator Ted Kennedy and others in Congress have proposed that all states establish a pool to provide insurance to people who would otherwise not be covered. Nine states already have such programs...
Director of the Massachusetts Health Action Alliance, Susan T. Sherry, said that the Alliance has been working to counteract what it sees as the main causes of the infant mortality increase. She cited "inadequate physician participation in Medicaid" and the increase of uninsured people as possible causes for the increase of infant mortality. "People don't get preventative care if they're uninsured," she said...
...sponsors must first guide it through a vote in the state legislature, then ask the U.S. Congress for permission to replace such long-standard outlays as Aid to Families with Dependent Children, food stamps and Medicaid. The federal money earmarked for those programs would be matched with state grants and poured into new benefits, bonuses, job training and family-planning courses, as well as subsidies for the private employers who are expected to absorb two-thirds of the FIP graduates...
...this referendum's opponents have repeated, the operative word here is choice. But choice for whom? How much choice can there be for a poor woman when the only alternative the state offers is Medicaid-funded abortions? There are many more constructive uses of taxpayers' dollars to combat the unwanted pregancy problem. "The fact remains that in this affluent nation of ours, pregnant cattle and horses receive better health care than pregnant poor women," one pro-life advocate says. "The poor cry out for justice and equality, and we respond with abortion...
...Francisco will be able to charge everything from food purchases to doctors' bills on a public assistance card, complete with magnetic strip and photograph. City officials predict that the new system, - which will do away with such fixtures of the welfare life as food stamps and triplicate medicaid forms, will save $6 million a year and cut layers of bureaucracy. Though several other states have used welfare credit, San Francisco will be the first to combine all aid programs under one card. Predicts Edwin Sarsfield, the city's social services director: "I think that within three years this will...