Word: medicaid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with so many freedoms, "Choice" becomes a travesty to those without the dollars to exercise it. Safe abortions can be prohibitively expensive for poor women if they are denied the assistance of Medicaid or other federal funds. The point of this assistance is not to promote abortion as an inexpensive form of birth control--few if any women would take the operation so lightly, and schools must continue their efforts to educate young people about sex and birth control so they will not be confronted with such a painful decision. Rather, federal assistance would ensure that when a potentially tragic...
...Coupled with the defeat of a proposed constitutional amendment banning abortion, crities thought the court's decree would smash an already splintered "Right to Life" movement. But just Thursday the House of Representatives again approved the controversial Hyde Amendment to the budget resolution--a measure forbidding the use of Medicaid funds to pay for abortions that has been in effect for seven consecutive years. Obviously, the movement still has clout...
...Darwinistic ideals of the conservatives. Noting this internal contradiction, columnist Ellen Goodman wrote a couple years ago that the New Right "was great on getting you born." but showed less concern for the quality of life outside the womb. Safe delivery into the world, they argued, not welfare or Medicaid, is the outer limit of social responsibility for the individual...
...garner re-election and possibly a majority in both houses, but I can say truthfully that those darned perpetually critical Democrats are, why, unforgivably stupid." He gave the swindlers all they asked for--the food stamp program, hot lunches for school children, and large chunks of medicare, medicaid, welfare, and student...
Your article on the increased number of U.S. hospitals that are owned or managed by profitmaking companies [July 4] raises a serious question: How will public facilities survive? Public hospitals are forced to accept Medicaid and indigent patients; private hospitals do so only to a nominal degree. Consequently, public hospitals need profits from well-to-do and well-insured patients to offset the large losses that Medicaid and nonpaying people generate. If these profits go instead to private hospitals, then a tax to support the public hospital is the only answer...