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...period of retrenchment and reappraisal, even an activist like Califano realizes he cannot forge ahead with many innovative programs. But during the campaign Carter promised a program of national health insurance and ordered Califano to produce one before the end of 1978. At a White House meeting on the subject last week, Califano urged the President to support a broad program of coverage that would be phased in over a period of five to ten years. Califano argued that a comprehensive program, including private plans, would be the best way to bring medical costs under control and, in the long...
...smaller scale, Califano has also made some strides, not without controversy. Calling cigarette puffing "slow-motion suicide," he has added $8.5 million to HEW's $30 million-a-year antismoking campaign. A reformed puffer, the Secretary is pushing the crusade with the righteous zeal of a convert. He argues that reduced smoking would cut back health problems?and the resulting HEW expenses...
...Califano is also working vigorously to reduce the number of unwanted teen-age pregnancies. He was shocked when he first saw the HEW figures: one out of ten American teen-age girls becomes pregnant. Both he and Carter have gone on record as opposing abortions, and Congress has limited funds for abortions for the poor. But Califano believes the Government has an obligation to make as much birth control information as possible available to teenagers, especially those who are poor. He boosted the 1979 budget for such programs by $142 million, to $338 million...
...trend is always up, and HEW expenditures, which now make up 36% of the federal budget, are expected to grow even faster in the future. Califano estimates that by the year 2010 real spending on benefits for people 65 and older will have tripled, to $350 billion a year. At the same time there will be fewer working Americans to provide the money on which the vast superstructure of assistance rests. Because of the declining birth rate, the ratio of working to retired people will shift from 6 to 1 today to 3 to 1 by 2030. Since not much...
Grandson of a Naples sailor and son of an IBM executive, Joseph Anthony Califano Jr., 47, is delighted that he has one of the toughest challenges in Washington. Says he: "I love this job! I think it is the greatest job in the Government. We're at the frontier of most of the social and human issues that government touches in a democracy. I mean, this is where...