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AIDS and Medicaid

Description: Ray Vadnais who has AIDS must stay in a hospital to be eligible for Medicaid. Nursing homes will not accept him and he is not ready for a hospice. Blood pressure being taken.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/23/1990

Freezing Medex rates

Description: Senior citizens lobby Senate in favor of bill freezing Medex rates. Philip Johnston, Sen. John Houston respond to group of elderly women.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/20/1990

Health care for none?

Description: Gresek family's "health care for all" benefits are suspended because of state fiscal crisis. Mother gives son medicine. Rep. Forrester Clark.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/16/1990

Health care reimbursement reform

Description: Rep. John McDonough meets with health care committee to develop reimbursement model where state is sole payer. Mother takes son for medical checkup at Dimock Community Health Center.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/21/1990

Insurance and privacy

Description: Sen. Lois Pines sponsors privacy bill preventing sharing of confidential data about a potential employee or insured. Woman tells of denial of health coverage because of erroneous medical information.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/18/1990

Peabody elderly on Medex rates

Description: Senior citizens meet in Peabody to ask for help in keeping Medex rates affordable so they will be able to continue health care coverage. Audience of elderly people.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/19/1990

Prescriptions by mail

Description: Pharmacists testify against prescriptions by mail system proposed by Blue Cross for Medex clients. Dapper O'Neil also opposes it. Drug store counter.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/13/1990

Refining universal health care

Description: Special legislative commission on hospital finance hears health care advocates' ideas for refining universal health care and reducing costs. Sen. Salvatore Albano.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/24/1990

Tobacco divestment

Description: Biggest investors in tobacco companies are banks, universities, insurance companies and pension funds. Harvard will divest of tobacco stocks. File of tobacco harvest, cigarette manufacturing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/22/1990

Universal health care delayed

Description: Rep. Robert Emmet Hayes says health care for all bill may not be affordable because business can not bear the payroll tax to support it. Hospital b-roll.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/02/1990