Word: medicaid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first full year of existence, Medicare, the nation's health-insurance program for the elderly and disabled, cost $4.6 billion. Medicaid, the medical-assistance program for the poor enacted simultaneously, cost $2.9 billion. This year the combined programs are expected to cost about $75 billion, or 9.5% of all federal spending. And in five years, according to the Congressional Budget Office, that price tag is expected to climb 87%, to $142 billion, a rate twice that of all other federal spending. The chief causes of this upward spiral are longer life expectancies for Americans and medical-care costs that...
...blame," said departing Health and Human Services Secretary Richard S. Schweiker in his budget message in January, "belongs to federal policies that have actually rewarded inefficiency in health care." President Reagan evidently agrees. In his 1984 budget, delivered to Congress Jan. 31, Reagan outlined sweeping changes in Medicare, Medicaid and private employer-based group health insurance. The projected payoff in Medicare and Medicaid savings: an estimated $2.1 billion in 1984 and $19.3 billion through...
...with a Medicare patient. The projected savings: $1.5 billion in fiscal 1984 and $20.4 billion by 1988. The Administration plan has other cost-slashing measures, including a oneyear freeze on Medicare fees paid to physicians, nominal but mandatory $1 to $2 assessments on the nation's 22.2 million Medicaid patients for doctor and hospital visits, and an optional voucher system by which Medicare benefits could be exchanged for a private insurance policy...
...planned military spending already announced by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, skipping of a pay increase for federal employees, a delay in cost of living increases for federal civilian and military as well as Social Security pensioners, and further reductions in such social programs as food stamps, Medicare and Medicaid. Overall, the aim is to freeze most nondefense spending at fiscal 1983 levels in dollar terms. That would mean real cutbacks in many programs; how severe would depend on the rate of inflation. In both his State of the Union speech and budget message, Reagan is sure to sound...
...story has tugged at the heartstrings of America." But the Ridgways were embarrassed; they pointed out that Parade had misrepresented their neighborhood as Roanoke's poorest, and insisted that their home was not, as Parade depicted it, "bleak." Further, Dorothy's check is augmented by Medicaid, and her parents receive public assistance totaling about $500 more a month; gifts may imperil the family's eligibility for relief. Said Mary Ridgway: "Others are worse off than us. I do not want people to think Dorothy was begging." Parade Editor Walter Anderson defended the story as a "powerfully written...