Word: medicaid
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...reform" of the formulas for entitlement benefits. These are payments mandated by various federal laws to individuals who qualify to receive such things as food stamps, welfare payments, Medicare and Medicaid. Explained Reagan: "In the past two decades we have created hundreds of new programs to provide personal assistance. Many of these programs may have come from a good heart, but not all have come from a clear head...
...have any hope of balancing the budget by 1984, he must cut military spending much deeper than the modest $13 billion over three years he proposed two weeks ago. The Senators contended that he must also take an additional whack out of entitlement programs, such as Social Security and Medicaid. The thought of any major slowing of the growth of Social Security benefits, however, frightens many House Republicans. Frets one: "I saw a bumper sticker the other day: SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY-VOTE DEMOCRATIC...
...budget cuts, supporters argue that many federally funded entitlement programs, which began as experiments in helping the needy, have become a burden on taxpayers, since the dramatic growth of these programs over the past few years cannot be attributed only to inflation and rising unemployment. Federal outlays for Medicaid, for example, have risen 15% annually for the past five years to keep up with ballooning health-care costs. The food-stamp program swelled from 16 million recipients in 1978 to 21.1 million in 1980, after Congress struck down the rule that people must purchase their stamps. Some officials view...
...Medicaid. Federal funding for health-care programs will be sliced by 3%, or $500 million, in fiscal 1982. In Missouri, officials have cut back on the number of prescriptions a person can obtain, set standard reimbursement rates for various medical operations, and refused to pay for weekend hospital admissions except in emergencies. Faced with a $51 million shortfall, Illinois is requiring welfare recipients to chip in a dollar for every doctor visit or pharmacy order. Explains Budget Director Robert Mandeville: "This will cause folks to think twice." 1982, this program will be cut by $1.1 billion. Nearly all states will...
...Reagan's previous budget surgery, only about $170 billion of the $705 billion in federal spending now planned for fiscal 1982 consists of expenditures funded on an annual basis; the rest is earmarked for defense, interest on the national debt or "entitlement" programs such as Social Security and Medicaid. Though some entitlement programs were cut on the first budget go-round, Reagan decided last week not to take another whack out of them...