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The Nation - News from July 10, 1985

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The governor of Florida, the state with the nation’s largest population of elderly, said that the Reagan Administration’s decision to trim Medicare home health care payments is fiscally and socially unwise. The move to cut $443 million from the home care reimbursement program over five years will prove to be a “tremendously expensive and counterproductive decision,” Gov. Bob Graham, a Democrat, told the House Select Committee on Aging.

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