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...union is also seeking to restrict the hospitals' ability to bring in consulting firms to fight the union. Working with State Rep. Barney Frank, Shea has succeeded in having introduced in the State legislature a bill that would prevent hospitals from using federal funds like Medicaid to pay firms like Modern Management Methods. Beth Israel did so during an unsuccessful unionizing drive in 1974, and a State regulatory agency for hospitals required that the hospital return the money to Medicaid because the expense was not related to patient care. The union's bill has encountered some resistance in the legislature...
...finished high, clearly indicate that Boston voters repudiated their past excesses and reaffirmed their satisfaction with mediocrity. State Rep. Raymond D. Flynn of South Boston won primarily because of his reputation as a "moderate" anti-buser and the name recognition he gained by leading the crusade to eliminate medicaid funds for abortions in Massachusetts. Flynn finished very poorly in the 1975 council race, but with the publicity garnered by his anti-abortion bill, he changed the rules of rabblerousing somewhat, using the issue to get his name in print rather than to create mass hysteria. It would be foolish, however...
...into the Aging Committee's structure, it clearly is part of its function. Some of the areas the Aging Committee has investigated recently include: Food Stamps and the Elderly (Agriculture has legislative jurisdiction over this area); the Impact of Rising Energy Costs on the Elderly (Interior); and Medicare and Medicaid Fraud (Finance...
...life is mostly unfair, instead of completely unfair. By restricting these payments Congress effectively takes two stands on nontherapeutic abortion: rich women are entitled to the privilege, but poor women--who will have a much harder time supporting unwanted children-- are not. A third of the 261,000 abortions Medicaid paid for last year were performed on poor minority women; a third were performed on girls under 15. It is possible that this compromise is the best the Senate can push through. It would be unfortunate if we are willing to permit such injustice to be visited, as it will...
...House's decision to obstruct the use of Medicaid funds for non-therapeutic abortions is a rare demonstration of sensitivity to a particularly complex moral question that the full Congress should uphold...