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...easy to apply for. In 1975, 370 of the 21,039 il legal aliens who were apprehended in New York City were discovered to have received $500,000 in welfare payments, although they owned $1.4 million in assets. Aliens manage to get on the rolls for Medicare and Medicaid, and they get free emergency treatment at hospitals. They also send their children to school as required by law. As they register for various programs, they are asked to give only cursory proof of their legal status and take a small risk of detection. Some court decisions, in fact, have made...
Walsh, sitting next to him, agreed that it had all been a "misunderstanding," and that everyone should get on with the real business of ferreting out Medicare. Medicaid and welfare fraud...
...examine Califano's action without taking official notice of the charges against him. They have also speculated that Califano's alleged interference in the investigation could have been the result of pressure from California's congressional delegation to get HEW to stop its examination of the state's Medicaid system...
...budget from $440 billion to $459 billion, with an estimated $57.4 billion deficit, compared with Ford's $47 billion. The biggest boost is $8 billion in spending for economic stimulus. By restoring cuts that Ford had made in such social programs as food stamps, child nutrition, Medicare and Medicaid, Carter added $4.5 billion to the budget. Ford had proposed a $11 billion increase in Defense Department appropriations to bring the Pentagon budget to $124.3 billion; Carter has requested about $3 billion less...
Whether a woman is "rich or poor," Califano insisted, "abortion is wrong and federal funds should not be used for providing abortions." Califano said, however, that he would carry out laws under which about 300,000 abortions a year are financed by the Medicaid program...