Word: medicaid
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...Medicaid is supposed to insure those who cannot pay for coverage, with each state making that determination according to its own means test. But even this voracious state-and-federal system -- which cost $2.3 billion in 1967, the first full year after it was launched, and now costs 69 times as much -- can barely afford to help 40% of the poor. In 1980 the figure was 65%. As hard- pressed states have found it increasingly difficult to pay for the program (they put up 68% of the total money), they have tightened eligibility standards. As a result, more and more...
...payroll taxes for the wealthiest, such a change represents a more equitable way of apportioning the burden, which now falls more heavily on lower-income workers. Removing the cap would provide an estimated $25 billion in new funds for the universal plan. Congress should then shift the entire federal Medicaid budget to the universal-health program, which would give it a generous $115 billion in its first year...
...Since 1985 the state's population increased 18%. School enrollments increased 23%. Welfare increased 31 1/2%, and Medi-Cal, which is what we call our Medicaid, increased 49%. Delaware moves to this state annually...
...private schools. Proponents dream that the magic of the free market will increase competition and bring about the best possible results for schools. But the results are more likely to resemble our private health care system, in which people who use vouchers in the form of Medicare or Medicaid get vastly inferior care. Moreover, the Andovers, Exeters and Deerfields will still pick the kids they want, making a great influx of inner-city kids unlikely...
...such a plan were nationalized, states would be required to pick two or three of the biggest HMOs in their borders and grant them a collective monopoly. Employers would stop buying insurance, Medicare and Medicaid would wither away, and everyone would sign up for one of the new plans, funded through tax dollars and administered through the HMOs...