Description: Catherine Dunham and Rep. John McDonough explain the high cost and paradoxes of the Medicaid system. File of elderly in health care situations.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/16/1989
Description: Weld is cool about budget negotiations. Medicaid is major contributor to deficit. Marc Roberts recommends overhauling health care system to contain costs. Rep. John McDonough. Press with Weld.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/29/1991
Description: Newly appointed mental health commissioner Henry Tomes addresses need for funding and proclaims his commitment to improving services. Lobbyists wary of budget priorities in legislature.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/16/1989
Description: Mentally ill persons march to State House in rain to protest elimination of funds that support day treatment programs.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/26/1990
Description: Mental health advocates try to regain crisis care funding which they say Dukakis administration has withdrawn. Frank Keefe defends budget "reversions" in mental health services.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/02/1988
Description: Community mental health services are jeopardized by state budget cuts. Boston administrator Gerry Morrissey pleads for $$$ for the many patients who will suffer. Beds in night shelter for mentally ill.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/22/1989
Description: Mental patients and their therapists demonstrate for continued funding of East Boston - Winthrop Counseling Centers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/17/1990
Description: Interview with the sole beneficiary of a home ownership assistance program likely to be dropped by the state. Interview with another woman of middle income who cannot afford to buy. Lew Finfer.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/13/1991
Description: Middlesex County District Attorney Thomas Reilly talks about the impact of budget cuts and layoffs in his office.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/07/1991
Description: Legislators ponder new taxes to reduce the budget deficit. Some say spending cuts must occur first. Door to Speaker's office. Reps. Cerasoli, Flaherty, Havern, Mara, Businger, Woodward.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/30/1989