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...social services. There will be no more free milk to schoolchildren above age seven. Subsidies for school lunches and for milk for families on welfare will also end. Prescription charges will increase from 30? to 48?. Patients who now pay only a flat $4.20 fee for any amount of dental treatment will be charged half of actual cost. Not wanting to seem entirely heartless, the Tories proposed a family income supplements bill that provides $1,872 a year for poor families with one child. That bill could move Britain toward an eventual guaranteed annual income...
...rising twice as fast as consumer prices; hospital costs are soaring five times faster. Neither public nor nonprofit private insurance is adequate to meet present or projected health requirements. In 1968, despite Medicaid, 20% of all Americans under 65 had no hospital, 22% no surgical and 97% no dental insurance...
...staff its thousands of hospitals, polyclinics, research facilities and ambulances, the Soviet Union maintains the world's largest army of men in white-though most of its soldiers are women. According to Petrovsky, the Soviet Union has almost 620,000 medical (including dental) practitioners, about 450,000 of whom are women. Petrovsky claims that the U.S.S.R. has more doctors than the U.S., Britain and France combined; one-fourth of all the doctors in the world are Soviets. In addition, Russia has well over 500,000 feldshers, who perform the same duties as a trained nurse in Western countries, plus...
...After being strapped into the chair, the victim is subjected to electric shocks in graduated amounts, usually until he confesses or-passes out. Another technique is "the telephone," in which the torturer continuously slaps the prisoner on the ear with a cupped hand, often rupturing the eardrum. A failed dental student, now a Rio policeman, has refined still another technique. The "mad dentist," as he is known, straps a prisoner into his dentist's chair, drills until he hits a nerve and keeps probing until the victim agrees to cooperate. Then he fills the cavity, leaving no outward evidence...
...fringe area, the union battle cry is "30 and out," echoing a proposal that workers be allowed to retire after 30 years' service regardless of age, on monthly pensions of $500 or more. Other demands include a company-paid family dental-care program, company-paid auto insurance, year-end cash bonuses for workers, and even a vague call for an end to pollution...