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Last July, the Health Research Group released a report which stated that many states--especially California, Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia--persist in violating Federal regulations concerning sterilization of low-income Medicaid patients...
...first two White House Conferences on Aging were gatherings of generally like-minded advocates, assembled at federal expense to lobby the Federal Government for more money for the elderly. In 1961 the conference helped build momentum for the passage of Medicare and Medicaid. The 1971 session spurred Congress to a sharp increase in Social Security benefits. But this year, with the White House committed to reducing spending on social services, the delegates were far from like-minded. At times they were as fiery and unruly as college protesters...
Many years ago, when there was no Social Security, welfare, Medicaid or unemployment insurance, the needy would come to my grandmother's door and she would help them out with money. Today Reagan is turning back to that world, except that this time, the needy may take what they need at gunpoint...
Hospital officials said their plan--which would first be implemented on an experimental basis with 27,000 Boston-area families--could become a model for lower-income health care throughout the nation. Only 15 percent of total Medicaid patients would be treated in the eight hospitals under the program...
...Jerome Grossman, chief author of the hospital proposal and director of the New England Medical Center, said yesterday the plan would "only postpone" fiscal pressures on the state, adding "programs such as Medicaid will be in for significant cuts in future years...