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...this, he accepts no money. He will not even take Medicare or Medicaid payments because, he explains, he hates the paperwork. More important, he says, "We're saving the taxpayers money...
...Reagan had decided that it was time to switch from conservative generalities to a more specific blueprint for drastically reducing Big Government. And so, after three weeks of slapdash staff work, he proposed on Sept. 26 "a single bold stroke" that would abolish the federal role in welfare, education, Medicaid, air-traffic control, postal subsidies and some other services...
Reagan proposes abolishing the federal role in welfare, education, Medicaid and other essential services. The assumption that these services can be effectively provided by state and local governments is simplistic. The matter-of-fact treatment of the decrease of programs and loss of jobs is criminal...
...welfare check recipients were mailed new eligibility forms; they must return satisfactory answers within ten days or face elimination from the rolls. Similarly, a state report last week urged that welfare benefits be reduced because an average family of four on relief gets - in cash, rent subsidies, Medicaid, food stamps and other benefits - nearly as much as an average working family of four. As programs and benefits are reduced, the underprivileged - largely blacks and Hispanic Americans - may choose to move to areas where it costs less to live. Thus, while minorities will continue to grow in proportion to the rest...
...order the formation of Professional Standards Review Organizations (P.S.R.O.s) to review medical procedures in individual cases and decide if the treatments prescribed by physicians receiving federal payment conform to generally accepted standards. Though doctors will be unhappy about P.S.R.O.s, they will probably not pull out of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, which provide a major share of some physicians' incomes...