Word: medicaid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cuts in food stamps will affect 124 Cambridge families who currently qualify. Cuts in medicaid payments will mean that Cambridge Hospital will be forced to operate at a deficit next year because of federal reimbursements will not cover costs...
Divided into five sections, the report presents a detailed analysis of how lost funds will affect the city's low-income recipients of human services such as welfare, medicaid, food stamps, the effects on education and manpower, community development and housing, and transportation, the humanities, criminal justice, and economic development...
...even if there were no inflation...you would expect utilization to keep going up and up. And that's what happened. And what the state is saying, very sensibly, is no, we're not gonna do that anymore. What we are going to do is try to get Medicaid into the prepayment principle...We'll pay the provider a fixed amount of money with the provider a fixed amount of money with the understanding that the provider is obligated to provide all the necessary services no matter what. And if the provider can be efficient and economical...
...Democrats' plan was designed to attract both liberals, who worry that Reagan's cuts in such programs as food stamps and Medicaid would grievously hurt the poor, and conservatives, who are fearful of a tide of red ink stemming from the President's proposed tax slashes. Republicans promptly assailed the program as the product of some highly questionable arithmetic. Nonetheless, the House Budget Committee last week voted 17 to 13 to reject Reagan's spending and revenue estimates and substitute a set prepared by Chairman James Jones of Oklahoma, the principal architect of the counterbudget. Noted...
...which Reagan wants to kill, would be saved but its funding slashed by $121 million, or more than a third. The only significant Reagan recommendation that Jones rejected totally was the President's proposal to save $1.5 billion by putting a "cap" on federal contributions to finance Medicaid...