Had it not been for these (government) programs, the number of uninsured would have increased even more in each of the past several years. |
It certainly raises a lot of serious questions, with a pharmaceutical company involved in financing the development of a Medicaid (reform plan). |
It covers the kids, but it may leave the moms in the waiting room who care for the children without access to the doctor if she's sick. |
Our fear is that the savings will be on the back of poor people rather than highly profitable pharmaceutical companies and highly profitable abusive providers. |
Right now we have $10 billion in cuts on the table for the Medicare program in the U.S. Congress. So we're moving in the wrong direction. |
There are serious moral and ethical questions that arise when a provider requires you to pay a fee that may not be affordable for everyone. |
These plans will save healthy people money but will be costly for people with more medical needs more. |
We have a growing crisis. We aren't looking at solutions to the crisis. We're looking at cutting back the very program that has cushioned the impact. |
We're seeing how public programs are helping offset what is happening on the employer-based side. |