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...contribute to the trend. But a 2004 study by researcher Michael J. New for the conservative Heritage Foundation found that states that have adopted laws regulating abortion experienced a larger decline than those that have not. Reductions are particularly steep, he found, in states that restricted the use of Medicaid funds to pay for poor women's abortions and those that required pre-abortion counseling about fetal development and abortion risks. (Lisa complied with that rule by phone...
...These activists also acknowledge that they bear a special burden to help women trying to raise babies they can't afford. Larry Weber, executive director of the Missouri Catholic Conference, notes that the year after abortion-rights opponents helped rally support in 1993 to make more people eligible for Medicaid, the abortion rate dropped sharply...
...massive spending that brought back deficits and ensured that they will continue for years if not decades, Bush plans to use his State of the Union address on Jan. 31 to portray himself as, well, thrifty. He will talk about the need to rein in programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, and he'll tout the modest budget cuts that Congress passed at his request last year. His staff wants to make "restraining spending" a defining Bush characteristic, along with spreading democracy around the world and prosecuting the war on terrorism...
...cuts to student-loan programs have stirred controversy largely because, according to some, they account for a too large a portion of the greater $40,000 budget cut, which would also affect Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs...
...Earlier this month Maine Republican Senator Olympia Snowe sent an angry letter to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services complaining of "inaccurate and misleading" pricing information. When one of her constituents, Caren Reed, signed onto medicare.gov to help her 85-year-old mother-in-law find a plan covering her eight prescription drugs, the website listed Fox Insurance Co.'s as the cheapest, at $2,850 annually for her copays, premiums and coverage gaps. But when Reed phoned the Scottsdale, Arizona company, she says a representative told her the yearly cost would actually...