Word: medicaid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hogan has announced he will reintroduce a program of mandatory, nonpaying public service jobs for welfare recipients. In Kentucky, some 26,000 residents who now receive $200 a month in aid to families with dependent children will lose that monthly check. Faced with a $7 million loss in Medicaid funds, Connecticut is unlikely to continue helping cover the costs of eyeglasses and prosthetic limbs. Says a spokesman for the state office of policy and management: "A lot of things that have been taken for granted are just going to disappear...
Many states will cut back on Medicaid, since that is the program with the highest federal contribution, 16%. The Reagan budget reduces Medicaid contributions to the states by 3% in fiscal 1982. In Illinois, officials have trimmed reimbursements to hospitals for treating Medicaid patients by $130 million. Private hospitals in Illinois are trying to duck the added costs of caring for Medicaid patients by transferring them to public hospitals. At Cook County Hospital in Chicago, for example, transfers have jumped from 137 patients in July 1980 to 363 this past July. "We are caught in a vise," complains Director Elliott...
...more equitably to sort out what Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt calls "the intergovernmental omelet of scrambled responsibilities" was the subject of much debate last week. Babbitt, a Democrat, and Tennessee's Alexander, a Republican, introduced what they termed a "swap" proposal: Washington would take over all responsibility for Medicaid, while the states would assume total fiscal control of primary and secondary education. Though the idea met with considerable enthusiasm, the conferees agreed not to advocate formally anything so drastic until its full implications could be evaluated. Instead they adopted a more general resolution, offering to accept "a phased...
Administration backers made some concessions to win their victory. At the last minute, they withdrew a proposal to set a strict limit on Washington contributions to the federal-state Medicaid program that pays many hospital and doctor bills for low-income patients. That was one of the rare Administration proposals that provoked Republican rebellion: some G.O.P. Congressmen from the Northeast and Midwest notified the White House that they could not go along because they feared their financially hard-pressed states would have to pick up an unbearable share of the costs. Even so, the House voted to cut federal contributions...
...minute speech. Clearly, the N.A.A.C.P. delegates were less impressed by what he said than by what he failed to say. He did not refer to the specific Administration policies that blacks fear most. These include cutbacks in funds for food stamps, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, school lunches, Medicaid, subsidized housing, job training, small-business loans and general aid to education. He did not mention his plans to funnel federal help through block grants to states, which many blacks consider a retreat to the days when dominant white majorities in state offices denied them equal access to governmental funds...