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...concerned about the politicalsurvivability of savings from Medicaid andMedicare," says Miller. "If the savings don'tmaterialize, the plan might unravel...
...Savings from Medicaid and Medicare programs...
...last week. The plan would cost the government $700 billion over the first five years and be funded in part by $105 billion in new taxes on large corporations as well as additional taxes on tobacco and alcohol. The White House will also seek $238 billion in Medicare and Medicaid savings. On Capitol Hill, the First Lady said the Administration was open to discuss changes in the plan, but not from "a standpat, negative, naysaying opposition...
...boldest of these proposals would cut in half the runaway rate of growth in spending on the two largest federal health-care programs. Clinton would cut spending on the Medicaid program for the poor by $114 billion over five years. And he would cut the Medicare program for the elderly and disabled by a whopping $124 billion, mainly by slowing inflation of payments to doctors and hospitals. These care providers would not be able to shift costs to non- Medicare patients, as they do now, because of new federal cost controls...
...same time, Clinton's proposed cuts in Medicare and Medicaid are drawing fire from liberals. And some health experts think Clinton may be going too far. "No one can tell you with any assurance that these levels of cuts will not affect patients," says Stuart Altman, an economist at Brandeis University...