Word: health
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...inflation, than they earned nine years earlier. Workers who labor on the piece rate this year--like lettuce harvesters--took in 6 cents less per box, adjusted for inflation, than they earned nine years ago. Growers paid only 6 1/2 cents per hour into the union's family health plan--about $18 per month--one-fifth the size of the average contribution to a California worker's medical program...
...WORK, is political. As usual, it's taken a crisis of sorts to prompt any action. With Three Mile Island fresh in their minds, people in the United States cringe at anything labelled 'nuclear' or 'radioactive.' "When you mention radioactivity," explains Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker, director of University Health Services, "everybody goes into orbit." As City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci's election eve hysteria in Cambridge indicates, waste disposal is a political hot potato. "Nuclear hysteria," volunteers Dr. Ralph R. DiSibio, Nevada director of human resources, "is spreading...
Question 1. Should the Cambridge City Council support a national health service program which provides comprehensive care, including preventive, curative and occupational health services, is community-controlled, rationally organized, equitably financed, with no out-of-pocket charges; is universal in coverage and sensitive to the particular health needs of elderly, women, minorities and disabled persons...
...Being in an allied profession, pharmacy, I can see how people are going to have to have something like this because the cost of health care is just running away from what the individual can play." Mayor Thomas W. Danehy says...
City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci says the elderly and lower income groups in Cambridge would appreciate help with rising costs and inadequate health care facilities for the poor. "That question should go over big with the working classes in Cambridge," he says...