Health Service Funding Cuts and the Declining Health of the Poor

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The federal funding cuts in health care initiated in 1981 were meant to protect the truly needy while reversing the alarming upward spiral in costs. The cuts have been targeted at those on the margin of poverty and at providers. The combined effect has been to force hundreds of thousands of the working poor and the elderly below the poverty line and to restrict their access to health care.Thirty-five million people, or 15 per cent of the population, are without health insurance today — an increase of 10 million, or 25 per cent, since 1977. Five million people annually . . .

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