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Federal aid for abortions, available under Medicaid, is now limited to poor women whose lives have been endangered by a pregnancy...
...harder than ever, as supply flattens and demand soars. Abortion is one reason: half of all unwanted pregnancies are now terminated. Teenage mothers intent on keeping their children are another. In some states a pregnant 15-year-old quickly learns that with a baby she can be eligible for Medicaid, food stamps and other welfare payments that total as much as $8,000 a year. If she decides on adoption, she may get nothing but the pain of loss and the ridicule of her peers. "Adoption is really unpopular in the schools," says Independent Adoption Center executive director Bruce Rappaport...
...representing more than 250,000 doctors and medical students, has a well-earned reputation of placing its members' economic interests ahead of, well, everything else in the world. In the 1960s, the AMA opposed the creation of Medicaid and Medicare, for fear that government help to the poor and elderly might slice into physician profits. In the early 1970s, one president of the AMA declared that "health care is a privilege and not a right...
...widely respected. Frank can debate and speak extemporaneously better than almost anyone else in the House, and he tackles some of its more complex problems like immigration and housing. Back home, he makes sure constituents get help from 18 staffers who track down Social Security checks and Medicaid benefits. Though he freely disclosed in 1987 that he was a homosexual, his district, which encompasses the liberal campuses of Boston and nearby blue-collar mill towns, re-elected him overwhelmingly in 1988 with 70% of the vote...
...high cost of AZT -- $7,000 to $8,000 a year -- will make it difficult for any but the wealthy or the well insured to receive the drug. Some state Medicaid programs pay for AIDS treatment only when the disease is far advanced. People who take AZT to stall the onset of AIDS may not be covered. Burroughs Wellcome Co., which manufactures AZT, is now seeking FDA clearance to use the medication in pre-AIDS patients. If the Federal Government permits the number of consumers to go up, presumably the price will come down...