Compare and contrast: gov't health care today v. welfare in the 1990s

The Congress needs to reform Medicaid and S-CHIP the way it reformed welfare during President Clinton’s administration. Medicaid almost perfectly mirrors the old, corrupt welfare system. It encourages states to expand their rolls, and there are too many people on Medicaid who don’t need to be there. Congress should give each state a fixed block of money and the flexibility to target that money to the truly needy. The results will be similar to those of welfare reform: Medicaid rolls will plummet, and non-needy people will start providing for themselves. Will you instead vote for a massive health-care reform bill that greatly expands Medicaid and S-CHIP enrollment and leaves all of the existing corruption and abuses unchanged?