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Republican lawmakers today unveiled plans to cut government health care costs by putting the brakes onMedicare and Medicaid growth. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) said during testimony in the House that he wants to slow Medicare's 10 percent annual growth rate to 7 percent or less, while cutting Medicaid growth from 10 percent to 5 percent. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said a "reasonable cap" on Medicaid growth would be "well below 8 percent" if the program isturned over to the states, an idea being discussed with governors.TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompsonsays the GOP is hoping...
Speakers including Ogletree blasted the Contract, a controversial proposal that favors massive cuts in federal student aid, Medicaid and food stamp programs...
...Federal Government, which he decries as "the arrogant empire." Alexander would shut down the Education Department, which he ran under President Bush, and would turn its functions and funding back to the states. He would turn back $200 billion in federal programs, including welfare and most of Medicaid, law enforcement and job training. He implores Congress to cut its pay in half and return home for six months a year to work at "real" jobs...
...painful spending cuts by the year 2000. A Senate G.O.P. task force, led by Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, seeks to force $475 billion in cuts from massive entitlement programs: $89 billion from projected welfare costs of $600 billion, and as much as $275 billion from Medicare and Medicaid, which are now projected to cost $1.82 trillion by the decade's end. Also included: a scheme to shrink cost-of-living increases to Social Security recipients. The report, in a barb at opponents who demanded to know where the GOP cuts would fall, challenged Democrats "to detail their alternatives...
...habit of trying to help the neediest. Because AFDC benefits have always been low, welfare mothers look like the neediest of the needy. As a result, liberals have fought hard to help welfare recipients, while largely ignoring single mothers with low wage jobs. Welfare recipients have always gotten Medicaid for example while equally impoverished working mothers seldom have...