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...Medicaid, which covers an estimated 17 million of the nation's poor, improved medical economics. Many jurisdictions refuse to tax heavily enough to match the Federal Government's contributions to the program, and some, like Washington, D.C., simply ran out of money last year, leaving the poor as vulnerable as they were without the plan. Thus Medicaid, like welfare, is subject to local quirks and disparities. Ira Jay Thau, 23, a New Yorker whose existence depends upon regular kidney dialysis, cannot take a job without losing the Medicaid benefits that pay for his treatment. Says...
...Administration spokesmen claim that Kennedy-Griffiths would cost $77 billion. Those who now pay for private health insurance would still pay the same amount for coverage-except to the Government. Nor are the bill's provisions for promoting efficiency likely to keep costs from climbing. Both Medicare and Medicaid have cost the Government far more than originally anticipated. There is no reason to believe that the Kennedy-Griffiths plan, the administration of which would require a bureaucracy of gargantuan proportions, would not similarly exceed initial cost estimates...
...member Stephen P. Rosen '74 brought charges against Harrison. Harrison was arrested by Boston police on May 7 at a Progressive Labor Party-sponsored protest against Medicaid cutbacks. He was charged with assault and armed robbery...
District Court Judge Elwood S. McKenney refused yesterday to hear the case of the nine people-including three Harvard students-charged with assault and battery in connection with the May 9 Medicaid protest because seven of the defendants insisted on acting as counsel for their own defense...
Harrison will appear in Roxbury District Court on May 24 on charges of assault and armed robbery stemming from a protest last Friday in Boston against Medicaid cutbacks. He is the roommate of Charles H Perkins '74, who faced a CRR panel last Friday on charges of disruption brought by the same SJP member who brought charges against Harrison: Stephen P. Rosen '74, coordinator of marshals at the "Counter Teach...