Description: Universal health care in jeopardy because funding once promised to hospitals has been rescinded from state budget.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
Description: ELDERLY MAN GOING THROUGH PHYSICAL AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY AT VA HOSPITAL.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/14/1985
Description: Veteran Volunteer at VA Hospital; Tony Frasca, World War II vet. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/10/1988
Description: Reporter's journal on life in Vietnam 15 years after the US left. People bicycling in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Water buffalo. Elderly man practicing tai chi. Rice paddy. River in Mekong Delta with brown water and shabby boats. Destitute families sleeping in street in Saigon. Historical novelist Anthony Gray. Comment from Vietnamese man about new freedom of expression in press and government. Comments on the forgiving attitude toward Americans; they see the war as history and move forward without animosity. Faces of smiling children en masse. Amerasian children. Market with bins of beans and bananas. Da Nang Hospital exterior and primitive ward; doctor tells of dire lack of medical equipment and antibiotics.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/19/1989
Description: Ways & Means Committee hears testimony on Medicaid budget. Rep. Richard Voke has terse exchange with Philip Johnston. Quadriplegic man explains why he needs Medicaid assistance.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/22/1990
Description: WOMAN WELFARE RECIPIENT AT HOME, MEDICAID
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/30/1984
Description: Health Stop walk-in clinic. Nurse places tiny vials of blood in centrifuge, then reads calibrations with magnifying glass after spinning. Man wearing thomas collar (neck support) in waiting room. Woman lying on table to have foot x-rayed, puts on lead apron, technician adjusts settings on x-ray machine.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/15/1984
Description: Weld swears in David Forsberg as Health + Human Services Secretary before elderly audience in Worcester. Cellucci also addresses group.Weld wants home ownership counted toward Medicaid eligibility.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/04/1991
Description: Weld addresses deficit by abolishing MDC, regents, universal health care; raising fees, MBTA fares, state college tuition; tightening welfare eligibility. David Wyss says cuts will not fix state economy.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/31/1991