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...Equal access to health care] was the intent of the Medicare and Medicaid programs when they began in the 60s" Tosteson said. "Taxpayers of the nation balked at contributing taxes to support programs to provide care...
...other candidates, Democrat Bill Clinton has come up with a "pay or play" model of health care. In Clinton's model, everyone would be covered either by private insurance plans provided through their employers--pay--or by a public program serving those who are uninsured or covered only by Medicaid--play. The Medicaid program would remain intact...
...Everybody says it's this welfare business that got us into this mess, defining welfare as the problem of blacks and Hispanics. The second biggest item in the Connecticut budget, around $700 million, is nursing-home care as required by Medicaid. When people talk welfare, what they don't understand is you're talking Medicaid. My state health commissioner says 80,000 children here are identified as having lead poisoning. This year's budget includes an additional $500,000 in funds for lead-poisoning detection, prevention and treatment. Is that welfare, or is it 80,000 sick kids...
...have called for investments in welfare reform and the earned-income tax credit to lift the working poor above the poverty line. There is also the untrammeled growth of health-care costs, which are ripping back through the entitlement programs. They are breaking the bank on Medicare and Medicaid...
...related issue of health insurance, Tsongas' plan to hold down Medicare and Medicaid expenses by having health-care providers submit competitive bids also looks sensible. Clinton, by contrast, has put forth few credible cost-control ideas other than to say he would establish a government board to regulate medical prices...