The trigger proposal will do little if anything to hold down themushrooming taxpayer cost of Medicare. It could easily be evaded bypoliticians who are adept at circumventing or simply ignoringspending controls. Moreover, even if it did work, it would do so byincreasing government controls on doctors and hospitals to thedetriment of patients. Needed instead is a firm commitment byCongress to an effective premium support mechanism.
(Archived document, may contain errors) 653 June 1,1988 RETHINKING U.S. FOREIGN AID INTRODUCTION The United States gives away some $15 bi llion in foreign aid every year, about eight times the sum appropriated annually for its food welfare program for Women, Infants and Children WIC) and four times that for the Strategic Defense Initiative. Much of this foreign aid goes to support avowed ad versaries of the U.S. and hostile "nonaligned nations.
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