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Citing such incidents as the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the veto of the Family Leave Act and denial of abortion funding for rape victims on Medicaid, Michelman called President Bush "the most anti-woman president in our nation's history...
Some of the money would come from restrictions on federal payments for Medicaid, the program that serves 27 million Americans, including half of all nursing-home patients. The plan would also hike Medicare premiums for the wealthy, an idea that is certain to provoke protests. In 1988, the last time Congress attempted to make upper-income retirees pay more, a revolt among seniors forced repeal of the catastrophic-care law the following year. Fear of a similar backlash led Bush advisers to drop the idea of reducing tax deductions for company-paid health insurance, a subsidy expected to cost...
...long-term economic proposals to encourage savings and investment would have been credible if he had followed through on his boast to bring federal spending, particularly exploding entitlement programs, under control. Bush's budget did include a laconic proposal to cap the relentless growth in such programs as Medicaid and Medicare, but Bush himself glossed over the proposal in his speech, evidently afraid to use the politically charged word entitlement on national television. The next day, Budget Director Richard Darman backed further away from the cap, acknowledging that the White House would gladly abandon the controversial idea if Congress thought...
...copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, urged federal spending increases in the next two years, including: $900 million for National Institutes of Health research, $900 million to fully fund treatment programs under congressional legislation named for child AIDS victim Ryan White, and $500 million for Medicaid payments for care of those infected with the HIV virus...
...This early intervention would save millions of lives and billions of dollars," Johnson said of the proposal to allow Medicaid to pay for HIV victims in addition to those with full-fledged AIDS...