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...woman dying of cancer, Terry Sanborn didn't seem to suffer. She and her unemployed husband Stephen lived on Medicaid and $512 a month in Social Security in a quiet blue-collar cul-de-sac in tiny Bangor, Maine. But they managed to pay $78,000 in cash for that roomy house at the bottom of Hershey Avenue, with a swing set in the backyard. They forked over an additional $17,000 for a Ford Econoline van. Not until drug agents raided the place did neighbors know how they were able to afford...
...KERREY: He will have to follow through and fulfill a promise to reach across the aisle and work both sides. Governors have a set of skills that members of Congress do not. Governors as a rule do not understand Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, the Clean Water Act. Governors typically don't deal with foreign policy...
...responsibilities at HHS are immense, and cover much of the Bush agenda. Medicare. Medicaid. Social Security. Welfare. And abortion policy. Thompson has a reputation as a workhorse, a details man and a good aisle-crosser, and after turning up his nose at Washington during the first Bush administration - calling it "Disneyland East" - he says he's ready to move in and get to work on health-care reform, welfare reform and bio-technology. "I am absolutely passionate about these issues," Thompson said Friday by way of introduction...
...financial reports came from unaudited results in the hospital's state Medicaid department application for $990,000 from the "distressed hospital fund...
Within the government, Shalala oversaw health and welfare policies, including the Medicare and Medicaid programs. During the Carter administration, she was assistant secretary of housing and urban development...