Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Goodbyes both to Bennett and Kyle...
...seats that it now holds. In the Senate, they found, Nixon's failure to resolve Watergate problems may cost Republicans six of their 43 seats, those of Kansas' Robert Dole, Colorado's Peter H. Dominick, Kentucky's Marlow W. Cook, Utah's Wallace F. Bennett, North Dakota's Milton R. Young and Florida's Edward F. Gurney (who has scandal problems of his own as well...
...health care, have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into doctors' pockets and hospitals' coffers. To make sure that the Federal Government is getting its money's worth for the $18 billion it now pays out annually for health care, Utah's Senator Wallace F. Bennett, no radical, but a pinchpenny conservative Republican, attached amendments to last year's Social Security Act. They set up Professional Standards Review Organizations (PSROS), which are to be composed exclusively of physicians (doctors of medicine or of osteopathy), recruited mainly from state and county medical societies. There...
...clearly precludes any lay interference in the practice of medicine. PSROs will be a system of doctors policing doctors. The essential difference between this and the present non-system is that the policing becomes compulsory for federally financed care. True, Bennett's plan would create over whelming paper work and a new bureaucracy, which cost money. But New York City's monitoring of doctors' Medicaid billings has saved millions of dollars at a relatively small administrative cost...
...When Bennett first introduced his PSRO plan, the A.M.A. opposed it - just as it had long opposed Medicare. With the Medicare defeat fresh in its mem ory, the A.M.A. hierarchy decided to string along with PSROS but to try to get the law amended to relax some provisions that it considers onerous...