Medicaid and medical education

This article is about the cuts that the Bush Administration is proposing on New York's Medicaid. These cuts would limit the amount of training available for doctors and would limit the access that the poor would have to Medicaid. While the Medicaid funding is not supposed to be used to help pay for medical school, it is, and these cuts would make it harder to train the amount of doctors that the people of New York need. The cuts would be as much as $1 billion in New York, but the effect would be felt in other states like California.
I think that there is no way that this cut will go through, there are too many advocates for better health care. I also think that it is bad that the money that is supposed to be for medicaid is used to help doctors get through graduate school. I think that the biggest issue with our health system is that it is about the economy instead of about saving lives. In other countries, doctors are paid low salaries so the only people who become doctors are the ones who care. We need to remember that health care is not a market and that economics should not have an influence over the care that people receive.

Hratocollis, Anemona. "Cuts in medicaid May Mean Billion-DollarLose to New York for Training Doctors." nytimes.com. May 14, 2008. <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/nyregion/14cuts.html>