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...reduces Medicaid contributions to the states by 3% in fiscal 1982. In Illinois, officials have trimmed reimbursements to hospitals for treating Medicaid patients by $130 million. Private hospitals in Illinois are trying to duck the added costs of caring for Medicaid patients by transferring them to public hospitals. At Cook County Hospital in Chicago, for example, transfers have jumped from 137 patients in July 1980 to 363 this past July. "We are caught in a vise," complains Director Elliott Roberts. "We can't turn patients away, but the Federal Government is backing away...
...Force exhibit near by, Scouts watch a ten-minute film about B-52s and climb into a cockpit for a simulated flight. The National Rifle Association, which has mounted a nationwide campaign against gun controls, is less subtle: a Scout learns how to shoot and how to cook the game he kills. More popular are lessons in how to pan for gold. "There's nothing dopey about trying it," says Frank Gallagher, 15, of State College, Pa. "I know a kid who did it in North Carolina and got himself $45 worth...
...real action is in the roomfuls of coin-operated electronic games designed to divert, amuse and swallow the quarters of customers waiting for their pizzas to cook. Even more entertainment is provided, free of charge, by troupes of singing, talking, joke-telling robots dressed up to resemble Muppet-like characters...
According to Gene Cook, Mud Hen general manager, folks like Ford and Pfund have become more prevalent since the onset of the baseball strike--he's received many inquiries from groups hundreds of miles away, who travel en masse to Toledo. About 15 people from the metropolitan Detroit area, who consider themselves "baseball fanatics," were on hand Saturday, having travelled via caravan to the gravel lot--free parking--outside the stadium...
...have it so that everyone in Toledo has a chance to see the Mud Hens for free," says Cook, who has raised attendance since joining the Mud Hens to a current average of about 3000 per game. One popular attraction offered often at the park is; Quarter-a-Beer night. Instead of causing inebriated havoc like such nights have preserved major league parks in the past, the nights are always a big success at Lucas County Stadium. "We got a policy--we try to let them all have a good time. If it ever gets to be a problem...