Word: health
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Kennedy has also shifted on national health insurance. Originally, he wanted to replace all private programs with a comprehensive Government insurance plan that would cost an estimated $130 billion a year. He now proposes that employers be required to broaden the coverage they already provide for workers and then-families and that the Government pick up the medical bills of everyone else. Carter's approach is somewhat similar, but he would have the program adopted in steps over five to ten years. Kennedy reckons the cost to the Government in the first year at $28.6 billion more than...
Kennedy runs a special risk, of course, and not only because he lost two brothers to assassins. Says Psychiatrist Frank Ochberg, state director of mental health in Michigan: ''The same charisma in Ted Kennedy that stirs some people to the good, stirs other people to the bad.'' In September, Jimmy Carter ordered the Secret Service to guard Kennedy. They now watch over him around the clock, three shifts of five or six agents each, all identified by a lapel button and an earplug linked to a walkie-talkie. When traveling, Kennedy is usually accompanied by Aide...
...months ago the Shah began suffering chills, fever, weight loss and jaundice. As his health deteriorated, the State Department gave him a temporary (one year) visa to enter the U.S., on condition that he refrain from any political activity and not seek permanent asylum. ''We are certainly not going to hound a sick man,'' said State Department Spokesman David Passage...
...Israeli settlements would be a part of Israel. The Arab villages and towns could decide the nature of their relations with Jordan and with Israel. We would tell them: ''Gentlemen, do you want our health department, our doctors to help you? If not, that's fine, we have enough patients of our own. And do you want the experts from our Ministry of Agriculture to teach...
...Brennan, who has been in poor health, is considering retiring in June...