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...cost of silver, which could add nearly $1.5 billion to the company's overhead this year. The largest users of industrial silver are hospitals, which require vast quantities for X-ray film. When the prices go up, hospital costs rise, insurance premiums climb, and federal Medicare and Medicaid outlays, already among the biggest items in the federal budget, also increase. That means steeper Social Security taxes, larger employer contributions to payroll deductions and ultimately fractionally higher prices throughout the entire economy...
...cases of incest occur yearly (National Center for Child Abuse and Neglect, 1978). Two-thirds of teenage pregnancies are not planned, because many do not have adequate access to contraceptives (NARAL). And the taxpayer price of supporting a child on welfare is far greater than that of a Medicaid abortion. But the issue that provokes such anger surrounds the fetus's right to life--its status as a potential human being. Anti-abortionist proponents usually take the position that conception is life and therefore abortion is murder and violates the rights of the unborn, or that there is an inherent...
...Chances are it would be abused, even worse than Medicaid and Medicare," he said. "There is simply a limit as to how much you can spend. It sounds cruel, but do you spend $500,000 to keep a guy alive for four months...
Ruth and Wallace He lie yesterday agreed their present coverage is sufficient. "I'm covered by Medicaid, and it seems to do the job for me," Ruth Helie said...
...suggest that the poor and aged pay more. Not one mention of the contributions of capitalism to its own problems. No suggestion that military spending is the most inflationary force of all. No hint that physicians and the organization of medical care have anything to do with Medicare and Medicaid runovers-nope, it's those dumb people who "blithely" accept their physicians' recommendations. The solution? To blame the victims...