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...anything up for free; yet until the bishops spoke, it looked as if the pro-choice forces might steal a march. Currently pro-lifers can avoid funding other peoples' abortions through their tax dollars or insurance premiums: Congress has prohibited the use of federal funds to pay for most Medicaid abortions, and many insurance companies do not underwrite the procedure. Under a universal employer-mandate system with an abortion benefit, however, all insurance companies would have to offer it. And employers would have to pay for it, passing on the costs to their employees. Thus, while the Clinton-inspired proposals...
...premiums and co-payments for higher-income Medicare recipients. House Education and Labor places a 2% tax on health-insurance premiums and adds 69 cents more to the cigarette tax. Dole pays for reform through cuts in Medicare payments and a cap on the rate of increase in federal Medicaid payments...
...prospect that Congress may provide something close to universal coverage is making the fight to secure patients even more intense. Even the public hospitals that have long served the poor and uninsured find that they must compete with managed-care plans. In New York State, about 275,000 Medicaid patients have joined HMOs during the past three years under a state program intended to save money by keeping them out of emergency rooms for toothaches and ear infections. In an effort to hold on to their patients, the public hospitals are waging marketing campaigns that include giving away hats...
...University of Denver. "It is the lack of jobs." But those who do manage to find work can instantly lose their health coverage, food stamps, public housing and child care. Marriage too comes with a penalty. Mary Ann Mendez, a mother of three in Harlingen, Texas, received only Medicaid benefits when she was living with her common-law husband, who worked periodically. When he left her, however, her broken home was showered with benefits: Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), more food stamps, gas money to get to and from school, and free day care. "It doesn't seem...
...would allow the city of Hartford to issue bonds needed to pay for a new waste-treatment plant. Rostenkowski instructed his staff to draw up the necessary amendment. Just a day or two later, he came back to her with a request: to co-sponsor a controversial measure affecting Medicaid fee assignments for physicians. Though it would open her to political fire, Kennelly calculated that the damage would be sustainable and knew that she owed one to Rosty. "One of the reasons he was such a great chairman," she explains, "is that he found out what you absolutely...