Children's Primary Care and Chronic Health Care Issues: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, May 24 and 26, 1988, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989 - 404 pages |
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Page 152 - Eventually, we must come to terms with the core problem: Medicaid eligibility ceilings are linked to Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) payment levels, and these AFDC payment levels, in turn, show both tremendous interstate variation and a consistent decline over time. In 21 states, eligibility levels are now at or below 50 percent of the poverty level, meaning that dependent children and their mothers in three-person families earning more than $4,650 a year do not qualify. (Medically...
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