Of Technological Targets and Budgetary Bombs: The Dangers of Depersonalized Budgetary Warfare

The GOP proposal for balancing the budget for FY 1997 has shown that the poor stand to lose most in the 'dispassionate' process for which revenues will be spent. With sizable cuts being proposed for Medicaid, Medicare and Legal Services Corporation budgets and reduced assistance through the Welfare Reform Bill, the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Nutrition Block Grant, the health care industry shall certainly be in peril. Advocacy groups should begin an intensive information campaign to educate the populace of the impending disaster facing national health care.