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...crucial and politically dangerous issue, but last week there was another indication of wider acceptance. The U.S. Second Circuit Court ruled that, contrary to a 1971 directive by New York's former Social Services Commissioner George Wyman, patients must be allowed to use the state's Medicaid funds to pay for their abortions, which are legal in New York. Wyman's order, said the court, "would deny indigent women the equal protection of the laws...
...able to increase budget appropriations by 27%, to $7.7 billion, for the two-year period ending in mid-1973. Even that leaves only a piddling $7,000,000 for a new program to open treatment centers for drug addicts, and the legislature turned down a Gilligan request to extend Medicaid to the working poor. Ohio limits these federal-state payments, for which states set the standards, to people on welfare, despite warnings from Ohio hospitals that they will have to stop taking some low-income patients unless the state pays for them...
...motives are the sources of the $1,236,420.72 he has collected thus far. Clearly the little people have been at the heart of his campaign; the average direct-mail gift was $18.58, and the average gift overall was $29.36. Some of the money came in the form of Medicaid refund checks, and at least one contribution was the one month's hostile-fire pay ($65) of a G.I. in Viet...
...state has accused Hosken of attacking two police officers and destroying a policeman's watch and pair of pants during a welfare demonstration in downtown Boston last May 7. The demonstration had been organized by the Progressive Labor Party (PL) to protest cutbacks in the Massachusetts Medicaid program...
Ineffective Enforcement. Recognizing the difficulty of enforcing its rules, the commission will rely upon specially designated state advisory boards, which can be either existing hospital commissions, Medicaid boards, or planning agencies, to screen all applications for increases before they get to the IRS. The IRS may prove ineffective, however, when it comes to policing the fees charged by the nation's more than 300,000 practicing physicians. Differences between medical procedures are often hazy at best, making determination of the charges a highly subjective matter...