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...winning-or at least partly winning -an important battle when the House and Senate voted restrictions on Government-paid abortions. If the new measure had been in effect in 1976, it would have ruled out two-thirds of the 260,000 abortions that were financed by the federal-state Medicaid program-or about a quarter of all abortions...
...present system, health benefits are linked to employment, the unemployed are often left unprotected. For those who are employed, programs like Medicare pay more on behalf of people who choose more costly care. People who are forced to accept a lower paying job may even lose their Medicaid eligibility...
...idea of eliminating "fee for service" payment is clobbered with a hammer every time it raises its tiny head. Then there are the insurance lobbies and health industry lobbies which are opposed to cost containment legislation simply in the interest of their own profits. Local groups that see Medicaid consuming larger and larger percentages of their budgets are unfortunately also usually opposed to large, federally-funded projects that aim at comprehensive health care coverage. And the AFLCIO, which supported the Kennedy-Corman bill, unfortunately represents people who are employed and who are already covered by good health plans...
Abortion. Feminists are fighting to keep from losing more ground on the issue of abortion. The U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 gave women the right to have an abortion for any reason during the first three months of pregnancy, and later both federal and state Medicaid funds were provided for those who could not afford to pay for it. Since then, little has gone well for the supporters of abortion...
When Congress passed a bill last year eliminating Medicaid funds for abortions, the action was challenged in the courts. Last June the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Government is under no constitutional obligation to finance abortions if the mother's health is not in jeopardy. Fifteen states have also cut off public funds for the medical procedure, and the number is bound to grow. The Houston conference voted to restore that funding...