...ones recommended in this budget. The headline on this piece is to the effect, during the past five years more than $30 billion has been cut from Medicare...the Administration wants to cut $50 billion more. Isn't it time we started defending the home front? I think it is significant when groups of this size...

...Nurses Association, and the Federation of American Health Systems ran a full-page advertisement carried in the Washington Post. The ad featured a large picture...current policy baseline, Medicare and Medicaid had indeed been cut. Yet, in absolute numbers, national defense outlays grew by no percent from 1980 to...

...did not prefer the current policy language of cut to the alternative of defending an annual increase. The ad featured a large picture of an elderly woman...Isn't it time we started defending the home front? The manipulation of the baseline exacerbates this bias in favor of spending. When, as in the 1990 budget...

...woman and a young soldier embracing. The following appeared above the picture: During the past five years, more than $30 billion has been cut from Medicare...compare yearly increases in defense spending with "cute" in medical programs. Against the current policy baseline, Medicare and Medicaid had been cut....

...young soldier and his mother embracing. The following appeared above the picture: During the past five years, more than $30 billion has been cut from Medicare and Medicaid. 41 Now the administration wants to cut $50 billion more. Below the picture, the ad asked: Isn't it...

...soldier embracing. The following appeared above the picture: During the past five years, more than S30 billion has been cut from Medicare and Medicaid. Now...absolute numbers, national defense outlays grew by 1 10 percent from 1980 to 1987 ($134 billion to $282 billion), while Medicare and Medicaid increased...

...and a young soldier embracing. The following appeared above the picture: During the past five yean, more than $30 billion has been cut from Medicare and...policy baseline, Medicare and Medicaid had been cut. 'Vet, in absolute numbers, national defense outlays grew by 110 percent from 1980 to 1987 ($134 billion...