Word: health
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hampshire sheep farmer, complete with white Lincolnesque beard and a bun of graying hair tucked under a shepherd's cap, turns out to be Bob Richardson, a former candymaker from the Atlantic City, N.J., area. Richardson gave up the trade to become a sawmill worker after some health food fanatics convinced him that candy is poison. Now he lives in Rumney, N.H. (pop. 820) with his three sheep. Says he: "A neighbor had these two, and they were going to be slaughtered if they weren't sold. So we bought them. We didn't know...
...institution were to be singled out as having the most impact on American life today, it would not be church or school, private corporation or political party. It would be the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The agency provides funds, advice and regulations for birth, infancy, upbringing, schooling and old age, for the sick and disabled, the handicapped and the gifted, the divorced and the depressed, the sex discriminator and the sex offender, for those who are pregnant and those who are sterile. Whatever the ailment or anxiety, the department will have some remedy among its 400 programs...
...fights racial discrimination and sends welfare money to the needy. The department's health services send a steady stream of payments to recipients of Medicare and Medicaid. HEW conducts more than half the nation's biomedical research into cancer and other killer diseases. The Food and Drug Administration's regulations control products that account for about 25 cents of every dollar spent by consumers. HEW'S education division distributes aid to schools and colleges and helps fund Sesame Street, the TV program that delights and instructs the nation's small fry. There are other programs for ethnic studies...
HOSPITAL COSTS. Nearly 12¢ of every federal tax dollar is now spent on health care, and 9¢ of that amount goes to hospitals, the fastest rising expense in the ever expanding Medicare and Medicaid programs. So many beneficiaries are checking into hospitals that the program's costs have skyrocketed, from $16.5 billion in 1974 to $31.3 billion in 1977. Nor have hospitals been reluctant to cash in on a program that asks few questions no matter how high the bills. The price of an average hospital stay has jumped from $350 in 1965 to $1,300 today...
...Harvard hasn't mastered Congress completely; the bill is being held up in the Senate. The clause that Harvard pressed for--which would force communities to apply to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare if they want to apply standards stricter than the federal guidelines mandate--has caused the snafu. It could require a few upper level Government courses before Harvard finally pushes the bill into...