For months Bill Clinton waffled on the details. So it was a surprise to hear exactly where the President drew the line last week when he vetoed the Republican balanced-budget bill and unveiled a new plan of his own. Topping the list of things on which Clinton took a stand was Medicaid, the jointly funded, federal-state health program that serves 36 million Americans. The Administration renewed its call for a plan that would save $54 billion from the program over seven years, only one-third of the savings Republicans seek. But Clinton went further, saying if the G.O.P. kept insisting that the...
WHERE IT MAY REALLY HURT
THE BUDGET DEAL COULD FALL APART OVER MEDICAID--AND NO WONDER. THE G.O.P.'S PLAN HAS ALARMED MANY PATIENTS, DOCTORS AND EVEN SOME REPUBLICANS
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