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...Coupled with the defeat of a proposed constitutional amendment banning abortion, crities thought the court's decree would smash an already splintered "Right to Life" movement. But just Thursday the House of Representatives again approved the controversial Hyde Amendment to the budget resolution--a measure forbidding the use of Medicaid funds to pay for abortions that has been in effect for seven consecutive years. Obviously, the movement still has clout...
...Darwinistic ideals of the conservatives. Noting this internal contradiction, columnist Ellen Goodman wrote a couple years ago that the New Right "was great on getting you born." but showed less concern for the quality of life outside the womb. Safe delivery into the world, they argued, not welfare or Medicaid, is the outer limit of social responsibility for the individual...
...garner re-election and possibly a majority in both houses, but I can say truthfully that those darned perpetually critical Democrats are, why, unforgivably stupid." He gave the swindlers all they asked for--the food stamp program, hot lunches for school children, and large chunks of medicare, medicaid, welfare, and student...
Your article on the increased number of U.S. hospitals that are owned or managed by profitmaking companies [July 4] raises a serious question: How will public facilities survive? Public hospitals are forced to accept Medicaid and indigent patients; private hospitals do so only to a nominal degree. Consequently, public hospitals need profits from well-to-do and well-insured patients to offset the large losses that Medicaid and nonpaying people generate. If these profits go instead to private hospitals, then a tax to support the public hospital is the only answer...
...considered cutting the CDC budget by 23%; Richard Schweiker, who was then HHS Secretary, successfully fought to protect its funds. With the current concern about AIDS, the CDC seems secure for the present; its 1983 budget is $261 million, less than 1% of the amount spent for Medicare and Medicaid...