Word: medicaid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easily afford to educate the 20,000 to 30,000 students who would have been excluded-about 1% of the school-age population. Moreover, few districts outside Texas have tried to discriminate against such children. Critics fear that the ruling will enable illegal aliens to obtain benefits like Medicaid and welfare, but that will probably not occur. In view of the close court vote and the narrowness of the majority analysis, any significant extension of last week's decision would be a surprise...
...letter informing him that he is being cut from the Social Security disability rolls. His wife and four children, aged eight to twelve, have no food for the weekend. Another told of a New Jersey woman who has found night-shift work at a factory and consequently loses her Medicaid benefits. Since her son critically needs an operation, she is reluctantly forced to quit her job and go back on welfare...
...calculations: medical services account for 75% of all noncash benefits. While important to the poor, such services do not help lift them above the poverty line; indeed, inclusion of medical benefits in the formula makes it seem that those in the worst health are the wealthiest. Yet even if Medicaid and Medicare were excluded, the number of those defined as poor would drop 16% if the market value of their housing and food benefits were considered as income...
Murray's research draws criticism from such liberal economists as Charles Schultze and Barry Bosworth of the Brookings Institution, who point out that the thesis ignores noncash aid from the Government, including food stamps and Medicaid. If such benefits are counted, they say, fewer Americans are poor than Murray's statistics indicate, and thus Government spending has been more beneficial than he acknowledges...
...Governors had no quarrel with Washington's willingness to finance all of Medicaid, but, by a vote of 36 to 5, they rejected the idea that the states should assume the AFDC and food stamp burden. This was in keeping with the traditional position of the National Governors Association that income-support programs for the poor are logically a national responsibility. Instead, the Governors offered to accept as state responsibilities a wide variety of other programs, including education, transportation, child nutrition and criminal justice. Total cost of those programs: about $31 billion...