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Hospitals could keep a far sharper eye on costs. Says Duke University's William Anlyan: "You must have someone who is a rat and not a mouse on the hospital board???someone has to say no to a request for buying a $100,000 piece of equipment." If the Government and private insurers provided an incentive to hold down costs, the "rats" could force a much greater sharing of facilities. Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, for example, provides computerized electrocardiogram analysis for seven other hospitals in Michigan. When a heart patient checks into Crystal Falls Community Hospital in the Upper...
...purpose of the new certificates ?which have been authorized jointly by the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Federal Home Loan Bank Board???is to induce depositors to leave their savings in the bank instead of withdrawing them and investing them in bonds and in mutual funds that specialize in high-interest-bearing securities. Such withdrawals reduce the money available for housing mortgages and place a drag on the entire economy...
...points, however, there seemed to be general agreement: 1) the Glass-Steagall bill directly interposed the public credit of the U. S. Government for the private credit of U. S. finance and industry; 2) the Federal Reserve Board???Governor Meyer, Adolph > Miller, Charles S. Hamlin, George R. James, and Wayland W. Magee, together with Secretary Mills and Comptroller of the Currency Pole? was made a virtual dictator of U. S. currency and hence U. S. economics for one full year...
Railroad Labor Board???"It has been a great help but is not altogether satisfactory to the public, the employees or the companies. If a substantial agreement can be reached among the groups interested there should be no hesitation in enacting such agreement into law. If it is not reached, the Labor Board may very well be left for the present to protect the public welfare...
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