Word: medicaid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House committees, under Democratic leadership, voted reductions in a range of social programs-food stamps, child nutrition, welfare, Medicare, Medicaid, aid to education-that did not go as deep as Reagan wanted. In O'Neill's words, the Democrats "cut them off at the knee instead of cutting them off at the hip." The Democrats substituted reductions in other programs-Export-Import Bank loans, for example...
...Medicaid Costs: "If that were lifted from our back ... we, the City of New York, could lend money to Chrysler...
Chronic illness plagues old people far more than acute short-term illness. Medicare, which ends after only ninety days, scarcely aids chronically ill patients. Traditionally, as the costs of long-term care impoverished old people, Medicaid, a medical support program for the poor, took up much of the coverage slack. But the Reagan administration wants to cut federal funds for the state-run Medicaid programs...
...inflation-busting rhetoric: this administration has submitted a fiscal plan which actually increases the government's role in pumping up prices. During the next five years, this administration hopes to increase military spending by $181 billion--which amounts to about ten times the current total payments of Medicare and Medicaid for services to the aged. Correcting for inflation, economist Lester Thurow calculated that this planned increase in military spending is roughly equal to three times the inflation-fuelling amount added to the military budget during the Vietnam-years of 1965 to 1970. And Reagan's planned tax cuts also threaten...
...program--a federally funded nutrition and health-care program--will eliminate money for 600 of the 1800 people currently in the program. The report says that cuts in this program will eventually lead to increased infant mortality and incidents of birth defects; the combined cuts in WIC and Medicaid will strain Cambridge's ability to provide health care...