Word: medicaid
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...President Lyndon Johnson signed legislation that authorized an insurance program for senior citizens, Medicare, and a state-run program for the poor, Medicaid. The law was intended to be a step on the road towards providing health insurance to every American. Since 1965, America has failed to make health insurance universal. While every other industrialized nation in the world has extended health insurance to all of its citizens, America, the wealthiest nation on earth, has fallen short. More than 43 million Americans were uninsured last year, an increase of 2.4 million from the year before...
...respected by every one of her neighbors. Nor is Denise apathetic. Her face still lights up with righteous anger when anybody mentions the Nashua Public Housing Authority. She can recite from memory the grievances of every one of her neighbors: Pat’s son got cut from Medicaid; Gary can’t get any formula for his daughter; Nicky’s husband has three jobs and she hardly sees him any more...
What gay activists won't say is that in some ways it's better to be single. For instance, if a bureaucrat is determining whether you can get Medicaid, he is allowed to consider how much money your spouse makes. A gay man could get Medicaid--or a veteran's pension or a student loan or a crop-support payment--regardless of his partner's income. At the other end of the economic spectrum, the law prohibits Senators' spouses from accepting gifts worth more than $250 a year. But if, say, a Senator left his wife...
...simple this time. Last Thursday, as Buffalo Soldiers in black cavalry hats and boots gathered around Rhonda Court, 40, an apartment-complex manager eating lunch at LJ's Soul Food Cafe in Charleston, she wasn't satisfied with the cowboy pitch. "What's Clark all about on Medicaid and getting lower-income families better access to health coverage?" she wanted to know...
...have grown irritated with Congress's failure to consider pricing alternatives and have become especially annoyed lately with the FDA's threats to initiate legal actions against any government that seeks to enter into buying arrangements with the Canadians to slash their prescription drugs costs for employees, prisoners and Medicaid recipients. The latter group represents a significant financial burden for the states. Although the feds kick in some Medicaid money, overall spending on drugs topped $23 billion in 2002, with New York accounting for $3 billion and California for $2.6 billion. The Democratic leader of the California state senate said...