Word: medicaid
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...Budget Director has proposed reductions in Medicare, Medicaid, farm subsidies veterans' benefits, civil service retirement programs and grants to states and localities for such purposes as education and urban development. A slew of programs and agencies-some of debatable value, some of remarkable worth-would be consigned to oblivion: the Job Corps, the Small Business Administration, the Export-Import Bank, subsidies to Amtrak. Also, the Reaganauts are considering a genuine freeze on cost of living increases in many benefit programs other than Social Security...
That year Jones and Cherry realized that hospitals were earning six times as much per patient as nursing homes because of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements, so they built their first hospital. In 1968 the company made its first public stock offering at $8 a share...
There is no question that Humana's financing will give the field of heart-implant research a major boost. Federal health care officials welcomed the company's plans. Said Carolyne Davis, chief of the Health Care Financing Administration, which directs the Medicare and Medicaid programs: "Given the country's limited health care dollars, it is important that we have medical research done in the private as well as the public sector...
...Medicaid, veterans' benefits, farm price supports. Civil service pensions, aid to mass transit, student loans. Plus . . . well, not defense or Social Security. But name almost any other federal spending program, and somebody in Washington was telling reporters last week that it might be cut deeply in the budget that Ronald Reagan will send to Congress early next year...
...Medicaid. Federal grants to states under this program, which helps the poor pay hospital and doctor bills, totaled $20 billion in fiscal 1984 and are expected to rise to $25 billion in 1986. The Heritage Foundation recommended a number of changes, and Administration officials let on that they are seriously considering at least one: reducing grants to states in which health-care costs are rising especially rapidly, presumably because those states are making inadequate efforts to hold them down...