Word: finches
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Jump into Chaos. Last week Robert H. Finch, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, declared: "We must build a health-care delivery system of surpassing quality, accessible to every American, everywhere in this nation." But then, at a Manhattan meeting of the United Cerebral Palsy Associations, Finch abruptly backed away from early adoption of a truly comprehensive program. "To move now into some scheme of national health insurance," he said, "would repeat the experience of Medicare and Medicaid, and multiply its consequences ten times over. Without prior planning, preparation and creation of basic resources, we would invite literal chaos." That...
...that matter, at their present rate, Finch's HEW staff is not likely to produce any program by 1980 either. In 1932, the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care, headed by the late Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, recommended that doctors be encouraged to practice in groups and that the costs of medical care "be placed on a group-payment basis, through the use of insurance, through the use of taxation, or both of these methods." Though Wilbur was Republican President Hoover's Secretary of the Interior and a former president of the American Medical Association, his recommendations...
...Hopper. At least half a dozen plans for U.S. national health insurance have now been formally proposed and introduced in Congress or are in their final drafting stages. None of these originated in Finch's HEW, and none is likely to. In its concern for budget balancing and combating inflation, the Nixon Administration does not sufficiently recognize the potential savings -certainly in health and lives, if not in money-from a national program to insure health care, including preventive medicine...
When Senator Muskie presented a moderate bill calling for a pilot program to test means of recovering and recycling solid wastes such as beer cans, plastic, paper, and "no-return" bottles. HEW Secretary Finch testified against it. Such a program is too expensive, Finch said...
Although the report gives some grudging credit to HEW Secretary Robert Finch for his banning of cyclamates, it takes the position that the additive should never have been permitted in the first place, and notes that studies of its potentially harmful effects had been available to the FDA for nearly 20 years. As an example of the FDA's cozy relationship with the food industry, the report cites an agency order that allowed soft-drink bottlers to exclude the listing of caffeine from the number of ingredients that had been added to their beverages...