The doctor's financial problems stemmed by providing medical care for the poor, his lawyers have said.
In doing this, we can make care for the poor more efficient as well as more compassionate.
In India Dr Mohan's Diabetes Centres, a business, charges middle-class patients to subsidise care for the poor.
The sums set aside for food stamps, health care for the poor, education, transportation and much else would atrophy.
They also make it much harder to fund health care for the poor and the uninsured, by starving the government of resources it could direct to that purpose.
He may be right to argue that America would be a better place if it spent more on its crumbling bridges and on health care for the poor.
In this time of fiscal disarray, when health care for the poor is a humanitarian catastrophe, there is no plausible justification for giving wealthy retirees government-subsidized health care.
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However, it does make it very clear that the effects of food stamps (SNAP), housing subsidies (Section 8 vouchers for example) and Medicaid (health care for the poor) are not included.
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First the Democrats would have to put entitlements, the legally mandated programmes of Social Security (pensions), Medicare (health care for the elderly) and Medicaid (health care for the poor), on the table.
Deficit hawks fret that the government's three main entitlement programmes Social Security (pensions), Medicare (health care for the elderly) and Medicaid (health care for the poor and residential care for old people who cannot afford it) will eventually bankrupt America.
And a definition that embraces the whole continent such as respect for human rights, the rule of law, care for the poor and a love of liberty (the list offered by one European commissioner) does so only because it not distinctively European.
Ryan would repeal the health care reforms Obama pushed through last year and would turn the Medicaid program, which covers medical care for the poor and nursing home stays for the impoverished elderly, into a limited block grant for the states and let them chop away.
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Number two, we take some programs that we are going to keep, like Medicaid, which is a program for the poor -- we take that health care program for the poor and we give it to the states to run because states run these programs more efficiently.
That's the amount of funds the federal government is seeking from New York after years of excessive reimbursement to the state for its Medicaid health care program for the poor.
The program today pays doctors and hospitals only 60% of costs for their health care services for the poor.
The assumption that the wealthy care nothing for the poor, and that the poor don't vote.
Medicaid is the health-care program for the poor and disabled funded jointly by states and the federal government.
Ryan recommended ending Medicare, the government health-insurance program for retirees, and replacing it with a system of direct payments to seniors, who could then buy private insurance. (The change would not affect current beneficiaries or the next decade of new ones.) He proposed ending Medicaid, the health-care program for the poor, and replacing it with a lump sum for states to use as they saw fit.
She has been credited with boosting health care assistance for the poor during her tenure.
It may also include health-care aid for the poor and uninsured a down payment on one of Mr Obama's more costly promises.
Medicaid, America's main health-care scheme for the poor, does not cover childless adults in most states, no matter how destitute they are.
And some policies, such as a massive increase in state-funded child-care for the working poor, will raise costs while introducing new benefits traps.
And he was an early critic of the Clintons' abortive 1993 effort to reform health care, arguing that with five out of six Americans covered by health insurance, and with free or subsidised care provided for the poor and elderly, the true crisis was not in the health system but the welfare system.
Spending on Medicaid, the health-care safety net for the poor (and the third-largest item on many state budgets), jumped by 14% this year, thanks to costly new technology and the increasing demands of an ageing population.
Under LDP pressure, Mr Noda is also backtracking from the more unworkable campaign promises on pensions, child care and help for the poor.
The man I met more than 20 years ago is a man who helped introduce me to my Christian faith, a man who spoke to me about our obligations to love one another, to care for the sick and lift up the poor.
He has voted for bills protecting the environment, subsidising health care for the working disabled and securing low-rent housing for the poor.
We also must demand greater oversight and fraud prevention in Medicare and Medicaid -- the nation's health care programs for the seniors, the poor and the disabled.
One of them, in India, was Aravind Eye Care, a for-profit hospital that treats the poor for little or no charge, subsidizing the care with fees it charges well-off patients. (See a Forbes article on Aravind here.) Moraes Neto co-authored a documentary film, Setor Dois e Meio (The Second-and-a-half Sector) about the journey that will be released later this year.
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And then, you're going to manage your care for your poor in the way you think best.
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