Reply #13: Terri Schiavo was a Medicaid recipient: [View All]

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As Republican leaders in Congress move to trim billions of dollars from the Medicaid health program, they are simultaneously intervening to save the life of possibly the highest-profile Medicaid patient: Terri Schiavo.

The Schiavo case may put a human face on the problem of rising medical costs, both at the state and federal levels. In Florida, where Gov. Jeb Bush (R) is pushing a dramatic restructuring of the Medicaid program, the cost of Schiavo's care has become political fodder. In Washington, where a fight over Medicaid spending threatens to scuttle the 2006 budget plan, the role of the program in preserving Schiavo's life is beginning to receive attention. /snip

(This is from a 2005 WaPo piece!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58069-2005Mar22.html

EDIT: I put Medicare in my subject line, meant to say Medicaid.