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Enmeshed in Tape. Through 1969, Wyoming was the only state offering nothing beyond minimum benefits and only to welfare families. Forty states had operating plans offering additional services such as dental care, prescription drugs, home health care, eyeglasses, clinic services and a variety of diagnostic services. No two states had all the same benefits for the same type of people. In 22 states coverage had been extended beyond the welfare population to the stratum classed as the "medically needy" -those who can subsist only if they have no doctors' or hospital bills...
Most of the clinic's patients come in for treatment of routine injuries and illnesses. Brenner said: drug cases are few. By agreement with City authorities, the names of drug patients are kept confidential, although all cases of infections discusses are reported as required by law, he added...
...some mornings, the clinic provides its building to the City-free of charge-for a pediatric clinic, Brenner noted...
...clinic has annual operating expenses of about $19,000 for medicines, cleaning and secretarial help; the expenses are paid for by a grant from the Field Foundation...
Harvard doctors who have volunteered their services to the clinic include Dr. Robert Coles '50, lecturer on Education, and Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, dean of Admissions and Financial...