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Good health care has always been scarce here, but the border boom makes it worse. A third of all U.S. tuberculosis cases are concentrated in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. In the El Paso hospitals, 50% of the patients are on some kind of public assistance, mainly Medicaid. Just about the only patients paying full freight, up front, are rich Mexicans who cross over to see a specialist. "Border towns have a double burden of disease," says Russell Bennett, chief of the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission, "those of emerging nations, like diarrhea, as well as [First World] diseases...
...think that your support for the death penalty, Medicaid reform, free trade, and nuclear power—positions with which not all Democrats agree—might make it difficult for some Democrats to back you at a broader, national level...
...first Republicans to call for Tom DeLay's resignation and one of the few who opposed intervening in the Terri Schiavo case. Back home, though, Shays has taken flak for backing the GOP leadership on some key votes, particularly a provision signed last December that cut funding for Medicaid...
...Just as troubling is the fact that profiling of young black men isn?t merely detrimental to the black community, but to the economy as a whole. As these disturbing statistics get worse, they act as more and more of a drain on precious government resources-from welfare and Medicaid to unemployment payments...
...Collins (D-Maine) put forth a motion to reduce cutbacks in federal education spending. That motion failed. And the administration has not increased the debt ceiling in order to buy time to address inevitable future expenses. As baby boomers draw nearer to retirement and Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid payments skyrocket, the federal government has not yet found a way to pay for the increased prescription drug benefits of 2003. Meanwhile, billons continue to go down the Iraqi drain, with fresh funds flowing from Congress almost every other month to fund the administration’s flagship failure. Yet neither...