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...this program, the insurers are saving $5.55 for every dollar they spend. Moreover, 90% of the people recommended for bypass have been able to avoid it." Chiropractors, long the whipping boys of the medical establishment, are licensed to practice in all 50 states, their services covered by Medicare, Medicaid, workers' compensation and, in all but 10 states, private insurers...
...four years ago for the lack of a vision thing did not seem to mind that the man they chose over him was organizing his office around staplers and postage stamps. But a lot had happened since 1992: the Republicans in Congress showed a nasty streak about Medicare and Medicaid that most people wanted no part of; Gingrich had ceased to be amusing as Newt the Menace, and was now seen as the Bad Seed; and the voters, who had not encountered a vision since Ronald Reagan, did not think one was necessary or desirable...
...while President Clinton was discussing these issues in the context of responsibility, congressional Democrats were relying on a more traditional class approach, arguing that proposed Republican cuts in Medicaid and education would only be used to pay for G.O.P. tax cuts for the rich. The President explicitly rejected these class-based appeals for several reasons. First and foremost, he understood that even if attacks on the rich are superficially popular, class-based appeals only divide the American people. They are more concerned about economic growth and opportunities to advance themselves in the future than they are about redistribution of wealth...
...problem of the American future before which all others fade is entitlements--to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid payments and veterans' benefits. When the baby-boom generation starts to retire in 20-odd years, there will simply not be enough money to pay those entitlements. Taxes will have to zoom, or benefits will have to be slashed, or both...
...lung cancer. Though an Indianapolis, Indiana, jury handed the tobacco industry a break late last week by finding it not guilty in a similar case, more than 200 individual lawsuits nationwide await, plus 14 by states that are suing tobacco companies to retrieve tens of billions of dollars in Medicaid costs for smoking-related illnesses...