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
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
Description: History of kidney transplants starting in 1954 with identical twins, narrated by Dr. Joseph Murray, pioneer in the technique and current Nobel laureate in medicine. B+W visuals.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/08/1990
Description: Dr. Jim O'Connell, director of Health Care for the Homeless, provides medical attention to shelter residents and people who live on the streets. Man with skin cancer on nose. Patients wait in clinic.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/21/1990
Description: Lynn has shortage of prenatal care facilities because hospital could not support obstetric unit. AtlantiCare Medical Center. Pregnant woman on examining table.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/23/1990
Description: Public hearing held in Framingham to discuss the health care proxy bill of Rep. David Cohen, which would allow living wills. Right to die.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/09/1990
Description: Rep. John McDonough agrees with John Silber's assertion that health care must be rationed in favor of young people over elderly.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/19/1990
Description: Elderly people and nursing home workers mob the State House halls in a rally to protest Medicaid cuts. Reps. McNeil, Sen. Houston. Keverian assures crowd of continued SSI benefits.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/06/1990
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 patients and their therapists demonstrate for continued funding of East Boston - Winthrop Counseling Centers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/17/1990