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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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From: Suma	3/3/2005 11:46:27 AM
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HEALTH CARE 'Pulling Feeding Tubes' President Bush is proposing slashing health care funding for the poorest Americans, leaving cash-strapped states to pick up the pieces. The administration's budget proposes reducing the federal share of funding for Medicaid -- the joint federal/state program that provides health insurance for more than 50 million low-income Americans -- by $60 billion over ten years. At the winter meeting of the National Governors Association, which ended Tuesday, the Bush administration tried to convince state leaders to accept the cuts in exchange for "flexibility." Democratic and Republican governors aren't buying it. Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D-KS) said, "If flexibility comes with $60 billion worth of cuts, that will give us the flexibility to cut off people from health care that they desperately need (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/02/politics/02govs.html) ." Sebelius echoes the sentiments of Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR), who said previously, "people need to remember that to balance the federal budget on the backs of the poorest people in the country is simply unacceptable. You don't pull feeding tubes from people. You don't pull the wheelchair out from under the child with muscular dystrophy (http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041226/ZNYT02/412260419) ." Write to your members of Congress and tell them not to let President Bush cut Medicaid (http://www.americanprogressaction.org/siteapps/advocacy/index.aspx?c=klLWJcP7H&b=100385&action=1782&template=x.ascx) .

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