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...income taxes while also leading to cautious consumer spending that reduces the take from sales taxes. Meanwhile, outlays have been rising sharply for bridge and highway maintenance, prison construction and new schoolrooms for the second wave of the baby boom. The stiffest increases have been in health-care costs. Medicaid spending by states rose 18.4% in fiscal 1990 alone. Thus many of them are struggling with the prospect of big budget cuts and higher taxes, or drawing on reserves. "It's going to be batten down the hatches," says Ray Scheppach, executive director of the National Governors' Association...
Help goes beyond the roadside visits. Staff members encourage, even beg their clients to come in for counseling and proper medical treatment. They try to get them IDs, welfare, Medicaid, food stamps, equivalency diplomas and jobs, and arrange for their entry into shelters and drug-detoxification programs. "No one has talked to them about AIDS or hygiene," says Russo. "It is not that they are not educable. It is just that no one gives a damn." Because of Street Beat's efforts, a number of the youngsters are reconciled with their families, back in school or holding jobs...
...variety of social and governmental policies that reduce opportunities to deliver health care and increase the incomes of doctors. Restrictive licensing laws forbid nurses and paramedics to perform simple tasks (or, in reality, allow doctors to collect a middleman's fee). Medical-school places are limited. Medicare and Medicaid expand the market for doctors' services, while doing little to promote competition on price...
Public health is one of the areas in which Congress has promised to be most generous to children. The law provides that everyone under 19 and living below the poverty line is to be covered under Medicaid by the end of the century. Scholarship funding for the National Health Service Corps, which helps bring medical services to rural families, is to be revived. Child advocates cheered the results. "We've got off on the right track for the '90s," said Sara Rosenbaum of the Children's Defense Fund. But she cautioned, "The question is whether we're going to live...
...rule, they don't cross over to the male power center once elected. For example, a solid majority of women in the Congress stood behind Democratic Representative Barbara Boxer of California in 1989 when she took on Illinois' powerful Henry Hyde in an attempt to restore Medicaid funds to pay for abortions for victims of rape or incest. The Boxer amendment passed both houses of Congress, but was vetoed by the President. Although they were unsuccessful, fully 70% of the women Representatives voted to override the veto, in contrast to just 54% of the men. Similarly, it is in legislatures...