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After vetoing a Republican budget proposal this afternoon that contains deep cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, President Clinton said he would present his own plan to balance the budget in seven years. Clinton agreed revise his initial goal of balancing the budget in seven to 10 years to a seven-year timetable as a condition of resolving the temporary-spending deadlock that caused a partial government shutdown last month. The Clinton plan calls for smaller tax cuts than the GOP version, and will also ask for smaller spending increases on domestic programs than his previous budget includes. On Medicaid...
...deficit-obliteration bill passed two weeks ago would, according to the Office of Management and Budget, cut $515 billion over seven years from programs affecting the poor, from afdc to Medicaid to Food Stamps, and give the states latitude to cut more. Even if President Clinton vetoes the bill and extracts concessions from Congress, reductions will probably be significant. Republicans maintain that the old programs are fatally flawed and that the new, pared-down ones will push people to escape poverty. But few who have studied the issue doubt that the transition will be difficult. And those who work...
...talk show, it would feature a whole different cast of characters and category of crimes than you'll ever find on the talks: "ceos who rake in millions while their employees get downsized" would be an obvious theme, along with "Senators who voted for welfare and Medicaid cuts"--and, if he'll agree to appear, "well-fed Republicans who dithered about talk shows while trailer-park residents slipped into madness and despair...
...Minutes isn't the only place where Wigand is going--or would have gone--public. Last week he was served a subpoena in Mississippi. State attorney general Mike Moore wants him to testify in the preliminary phase of a Medicaid reimbursement suit against the tobacco industry. The case attempts to make the tobacco industry compensate state taxpayers for funds spent on the tobacco-related illness and death of indigent citizens...
...Republican members of the powerful Senate Finance Committee have gathered to divvy up federal Medicaid funds among the states. The House has already contrived a new formula, which the initial Senate plan fails to match. The committee has already promised Texas an additional $5 billion over seven years, but the state's other Senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison, wants more. Unless an extra $158 million is allotted (which would equal the House sum), Hutchison says, she will vote against the vital reconciliation bill. "I really don't get it," says Gramm, peering over his gold-rimmed aviator glasses, his Muppet-like...