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...costly habit may get costlier. A $206 billion agreement reached between the tobacco industry and state attorneys general, who had sued to recoup Medicaid costs, could lift the price of a cigarette pack by about 40[cents] over five years (vs. $1.10 under an earlier proposal). But perhaps your kids will save a bundle--if tobacco firms fulfill a pledge not to promote their products to young people...
Murray is pro-choice; Smith once voted against Medicaid funding for abortion in cases of rape and incest, explaining, "We don't kill children because their father is a jerk." Murray, a former instructor and school-board member, boasts about her role in last week's budget agreement and the planned hiring of 100,000 teachers to reduce class size; Smith, who once managed a tax-preparation business, accused Murray of raiding the Social Security trust fund and said she doesn't want bureaucrats or politicians in D.C. "wrapping my school district in red tape...
...doctors got over that hurdle, there is the fact that it would all cost about $1 million, most of which Duke would pay out of its pocket. Christopher's medical care has already cost $192,500, of which Medicaid will reimburse only about $81,000. When money is tight, research crucial and hard to pay for, and there are many children to save, is this the best use of resources...
...should affect his fairness and intellectual honesty, say his supporters. But Democrats grumble that the past few weeks have finally exposed Hyde's partisan instincts. They claim that he has a radical antiabortion agenda--his most famous namesake is the Hyde amendment banning federal funding of most Medicaid abortions--and is too eager to do Newt Gingrich's bidding. "It's just not worked out," Frank says of Hyde's tenure in the Starr-report era. "Whether it's because the Republican leadership has overridden him or what, I don't know, but Henry has not been bipartisan...
First, reproductive choice. I support a woman's right to choose, in every instance. Pro-life forces, having failed to ban abortion outright, have turned to reducing choice bit-by-bit. They have already succeeded in limiting abortion access for poor women on Medicaid, women in the military and female federal employees...