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...underscored by a surprise decision on welfare reform. Although Carter had made a major campaign point of prompt reform, he dashed that prospect with the curious explanation that the welfare mess "is worse than we thought." Several options for revamping welfare had been prepared by HEW Secretary Joseph Califano and debated in five White House meetings over the past month, but none of them was acceptable to Carter essentially because they all cost too much money...
Throughout his presidential campaign, Jimmy Carter pledged he would reform the antiquated and anarchic welfare system run by the Federal Government. At his first Cabinet meeting, Carter ordered HEW Secretary Joseph Califano to get cracking on a solution. Califano quickly assembled a 32-member committee-composed of Administration, congressional, state and private experts-and set out to produce a plan by May 1. Last week, unable to get agreement on a single concept, Califano gave Carter four different approaches to the problem that were long on principle and short on detail. The President hopes to be able to choose...
Details of how this major surgery is to be accomplished will emerge when HEW Secretary, Joseph Califano, tries to sell the program to Congress. It is certain that state and regional health authorities will be called upon to cooperate with federal officials in deciding just who can spend how much on what. For example, if two nearby hospitals in the same town both want to buy computerized X ray scanners (cost: $500,000 to $750,000), only one of the institutions may be allowed to make the purchase. Carter also hopes to place an annual ceiling of no more than...
David S. Weiner, director-designate of the Children's Medical Center, said "Richmond shows a broad, in-depth understanding of health-care systems" and will provide valuable advice to HEW Secretary Joseph A. Califano on health care financing and administration...
That this exciting new research holds great promise but could also pose some peril was stressed in the day-long testimony before Senator Edward Kennedy's health subcommittee. Califano called recombinant DNA "a scientific tool of enormous potential." He also warned about possible-though unknown-hazards and concluded: "There is no reasonable alternative to regulation under law." Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, involved in the controversy over genetic-engineering projects at Harvard and M.I.T., argued for the public right to regulate the research. Said he: "Genetic manipulation to create new forms of life places biologists at a threshold similar...