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Article: DUKAKIS OFFERS $100M PLAN FOR PRENATAL HEALTH CARE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 22, 1988
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Gov. Michael S. Dukakis yesterday criticized Vice President
George Bush for standing by while 700,000 children were cut off
Medicaid, and he proposed a $100 million program to guarantee that
all uninsured pregnant women have access to top-quality health care.
"My dad was a doctor," Dukakis said in a speech in an atrium
at Brigham and Women's Hospital amid a swarm of pink and plue
balloons, noisy babies and buzzing doctors' beepers, "and when I
was growing up, he talked about the principle that every doctor
lives by: Above all, do no harm. I wish someone had told that to
George Bush.
"When children and their families have needed a helping hand,
Mr. Bush's administration has given them a ...