Description: Health care advocates say Sen. Patricia McGovern's proposed reforms in Medicaid will jeopardize and burden recipients.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/11/1989
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: Elderly patients remain in hospitals much too long because of bed shortage in nursing homes. Patient using walker. Unoccupied hospital bed.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/21/1989
Description: Planned Parenthood staff and patients in Brookline incur harassment after Supreme Court abortion decision. Empty waiting room, exam room, office interior. Protesters and police scurry outside clinic.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/06/1989
Description: Silent procession up State House steps to protest massive funding cuts in mental health programs. Mock funeral in St. Paul's Cathedral for endangered human services.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/28/1989
Description: Senate Ways and Means hearing on Medicaid budget problems. Patricia McGovern talks tough. Carmen Canino-Siegrist, public welfare commissioner. Philip Johnston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/18/1989
Description: Shattuck Hospital AIDS unit (including prison ward): patients are visited by medical staff who volunteer for the assignment.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/08/1989
Description: Case of measles in Brookline elementary school points out danger of state immunization program running out of vaccines. Children at recess on playground. Baby being inoculated.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/05/1989
Description: Universal health care in jeopardy because funding once promised to hospitals has been rescinded from state budget. Montage of hospital file. Steven Pierce, Kenneth Lemanski, William Nagle.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/20/1989
Description: Because of state's revenue problem, universal health care plan will suffer loss of $214 million formerly promised as compensation to hospitals. James Hooley, medical security commissioner.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/26/1989