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Joseph A. Califano, who served under President Carter, said that America faces an imminent revolution in health care. "At stake are not only billions of dollars but who lives, who dies, and who pays," he said...
...Califano, whose speech was part of the Kennedy School's on-going 50th anniversary festivities, also received a medal yesterday as part of the celebration...
...combat this potential crisis of spiraling medical costs and the dramatic increaese in the elderly population, Califano said Americans must start to view hospital care as a last resort. He called for the elimination of 400,000 hospital beds across the nation and cut-backs in the number of doctors. Paraprofessionals could provide the same services less expensively and just as competently, he said...
...support legislation that combines the job programs traditionally favored by liberals with efforts to pare the welfare rolls advocated by conservatives. Jo Anne Ross, a Reagan appointee at the Social Security Administration, describes workfare as the "top priority of the Department of Health and Human Services." Says Joseph Califano, Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare during the Carter Administration: "If the kids are in school, then the mother can be working. Nearly everyone accepts that concept...
...part of the President's political ascendancy lay in sensing that Government needed to become a forum of denial. The late Dean Acheson defined it as the necessity of "administering scarcity." Joe Califano, who under Johnson and Carter helped design this huge Government, foresaw a time when the cost of programs would outstrip the nation's ability to pay for them. Learning to think small, Califano warned six years ago, could be a traumatic experience...