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Health Care. The alternative joins the call for insurance reform, which means eliminating the onerous "pre-existing condition" clauses insurance companies use to deny coverage. It also targets Medicare and Medicaid as the last great preserves of fee-for-service medicine. Price controls are rejected because they spawn cost shifting. The alternative would use a voucher system to move future beneficiaries into HMOs. Those seeking greater care would have to pay for it out of their own pockets...
Asked to name which programs he might be willing to cut to help balance the budget, Gingrich flatly refuses. "I don't want to give people like Tom Foley a single thing to distort and expand into an attack." He does tick off a few items, such as putting Medicaid recipients into managed care and implementing tighter procurement practices at the Pentagon, which he insists could produce $125 billion to $150 billion in savings over five years. That would still be far short of the $700 billion or so that analysts say would have to be cut in the next...
...states who pay the price if they fail. Hoping for some ammunition, the Clinton Administration helped fund a study by the Urban Institute that for the first time assesses the costs of immigration. The study found that illegals drain about $2 billion a year for incarceration, schooling and Medicaid from the budgets of such major destination states as Texas, Florida and California. But the survey also discerned that for the country as a whole, legal and illegal immigrants generate a $25 billion to $30 billion surplus from the income and property taxes they...
Since Medicare and Medicaid funds have been unable to cover the full cost of patients' treatments, hospitals have often charged private insurance companies or wealthy foreigners extra fees to make up for losses...
Gaintner says he is "very against" massive funds being taken away from Medicare and Medicaid. "You don't rob Peter to pay Paul," he says...