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Bush trims health care for poor
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — This is why we sent the bastards packing. They really are disgusting and selfish people in the Republican party. In the first of an expected avalanche of post-election regulations, the Bush administration on Friday narrowed the scope of services that can be provided to poor people under Medicaid’s outpatient hospital benefit. Public hospitals and state officials immediately protested the action, saying it would reduce Medicaid payments to many hospitals at a time of growing need. The new rule conflicts with efforts by Congressional leaders and governors ...

Transition team working to reverse bush era actions
BlondeSense — According to the NY Times , while the bushistas are scurrying to enact a series of post-election regulations that would hinder, rather than help Americans who need it, like a new rule that would narrow the scope of services provided to poor people under Medicaid at a time when people are losing their jobs or their healthcare insurance or both, The Washington Post reports that "Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights and other issues, ...