Critics say Wis. welfare reform would limit access to care

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Wisconsin's W-2 welfare and Medicaid reform law aims to remove residents from welfare and put them to work. If they take employment without health benefits, they would be eligible to participate in a state health plan, with a sliding scale of premiums according to income. The law cannot take effect unless the federal government grants a waiver, which is opposed by many physicians and by consumer groups that advocate health care for the poor.

Medicaid, Administration of Human Resource Programs (except Education, Public Health, and Veterans' Affairs Programs), Health Programs-State, Income Security-State, Laws, regulations and rules, Social policy, Welfare reform, Health policy, Manpower policy, Wisconsin

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A long-neglected system strains to respond to a rising threat

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The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) warns that infectious diseases will spread, partly because of population movements. Congress threatens further cuts in funds, although the CDC lacks sufficient resources to track epidemics. Past successes in eradicating disease caused a false sense of security, which handicaps the fight against diseases such as AIDS, hantaviruses and chlamydia as well as mutant forms of tuberculosis.

Health Care and Social Assistance, HEALTH SERVICES, Public Health Care, Health Research Programs, Research, Management, Finance, Medical research, Public health, Communicable diseases, Drug resistance in microorganisms, Microbial drug resistance, United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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