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...Americans, have no insurance. The bulk of these people would have been protected by a new state rule requiring most businesses to insure permanent employees and dependents. But 120,000 are folks -- primarily women and children -- who live below the poverty line yet earn too much to qualify for Medicaid. Oregon wanted Medicaid to cover those people, and for that it needed Washington...
...when I was born in Texas," Powell told the President, "I'd be dead today." As an infant, Powell developed an inoperable tumor that attacked his spinal cord and left him paralyzed from the waist down. Though the case seemed terminal, he was saved by an innovative doctor. Oregon Medicaid director Jean Thorne disputes Powell's charge. His condition would have been covered, she says, provided a physician could be found who considered it treatable...
Taken to an extreme, the Administration's objections could undermine the very premise of Oregon's plan: if every sick or dying person comes under the protection of the Disabilities Act, rationing care becomes impossible. "There are a lot of disabled folks who don't qualify for Medicaid who would have received coverage under our plan," says Oregon's frustrated senate president, Dr. John Kitzhaber, father of the proposal. But almost nobody in Oregon -- or Washington -- thinks the fuss about the handicapped is anything but a smoke screen. Oregon's real mistake is that it tried to make tough choices...
...they were taking in. With such evidence in hand, an army of more than 1,100 FBI agents and other federal law-enforcement officials ended the largest health-care fraud investigation to date. Under the complex scheme, medical professionals and their accomplices stole tens of millions of dollars from Medicaid as prescriptions were falsified or resold. Said President Bush after the arrests: "These people are charged with betraying a sacred trust...
...crooked network, centered in New York City, Chicago and Atlanta, reportedly used several grifts. The simpler versions included billing Medicaid for prescriptions that were never filled or substituting cheaper generic drugs while billing Medicaid for higher-priced alternatives. But the operation also did a brisk business in reselling drugs. A doctor, for example, would prescribe medicine for a healthy Medicaid beneficiary, who would fill the prescription at a crooked pharmacy. The "patient" would then sell the medicine for about 10% of its value to a "diverter," who would repackage and resell it, often on the black market in Puerto Rico...