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The Medicaid Kill-Off

Russell, Marta
http://mronline.org/2005/08/15/the-medicaid-kill-off/

Publisher:  MR Online
Date Written:  15/08/2005
Year Published:  2005  
Resource Type:  Article

President George W. Bush and Congress slashed $10 billion from the Medicaid budget for this coming year [2006]. Medicaid is the primary public health care program for impoverished persons that serves over 53 million people. The cut is clearly an attack on poor people, and it may wind up killing disabled and chronically ill persons before all is done. It is also a strike from those segments in our society who wish to dismantle the entire Medicaid system.

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Gashing Medicaid promises to roll back the clock on disabled persons who nearly always were locked up or warehoused, with no option to live in the community, before direct (in-home) support services became a part of some states’ Medicaid program. Present rollbacks of Medicaid are undermining disabled people’s civil rights - the right to be free of institutionalized "care"

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