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...drugs for decades. But instruction in the use of medication profiles has only in recent years become standard in most schools of pharmacy, and the profiles are only now coming into widespread use for both prescription and proprietary drugs. In fact, some New York City pharmacists dispensing prescriptions under Medicaid are required to keep these profiles on Medicaid patients. The New Jersey board of pharmacy has issued a regulation, now under court challenge, requiring all pharmacists to keep such records. In these and many other states, a customer who hands a prescription to the pharmacist is likely to be asked...
...their patients. It is glaringly obvious that the Cambridge Community Physicians don't want Harvard dependents in Cambridge to have a choice between their private services and a less expensive, more comprehensive, prepaid plan. These are the some kind of doctors who have opposed. Blue Cross-Blue Shield, Medicare, Medicaid, the building of more medical schools to produce more doctors, and every other attempt to improve health care and lower consumer costs. One hopes that all readers of the Crimson recognized the physicians' criticism of the new UHS plan for what it is--hypocritical poppycock. Phyllis Teitelbaum
...Americans, she was getting a 20% increase in her Social Security check.* But to Mrs. Freed and many other elderly and/or disabled pensioners, that was bad news indeed. The raise would lift their incomes just enough to make them ineligible for other types of Government benefits, chiefly welfare and Medicaid payments, which they can ill afford to lose...
...increase than before. She is losing $22 a month in disability assistance, and the rent that she pays on a public housing apartment will go up automatically by $7 a month, to $33. Also, she will lose at least temporarily the ability to charge doctor and hospital bills to Medicaid...
...case is only too common. Some 187,000 old or disabled people will be dropped from welfare rolls, and 93,000 will lose Medicaid eligibility too. Others will have Veterans Administration pensions reduced by the amount of the Social Security increase, or will lose some of their food stamps...