Word: health
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...ready committed to Reagan or Congress man Philip Crane, Connally's positions are generally conservative. He favors the SALT II treaty only if considerable new money is allocated for cruise missiles and other weapons, advocates a federal tax cut of $50 billion to $100 billion, opposes national health insurance, pushes strongly for nuclear power and the loosening of pollution laws to allow more use of coal, favors deregulation of oil with a provision that profits be plowed back to in crease production, and opposes gun control. His coup in luring right-wing Fund Raiser Richard Viguerie away from the Crane...
Peter Bourne, health policy adviser to the White House, had to quit his post after he had improperly prescribed a drug for a friend. At the time, sources charged that Bourne himself had used cocaine. He told a New York Times reporter that there was "a high incidence" of marijuana and occasional cocaine use among members of the White House staff...
...Travis Air Force Base. A stream of 396 Indochinese refugees began to struggle down the stairway with their makeshift shopping-bag luggage, pausing at the bottom to fold their hands and bow formally to the flight attendants. After a briefing in Khmer and Lao and the processing of health forms, the refugees were hustled aboard buses and taken to a TraveLodge motel for introductory lessons on American life: how to operate light switches, how to use a toilet. Many stood on the motel's second-floor balcony and stared uncomprehendingly at the rush of traffic below. Others squatted...
...legislature's failure to act was no accidental lapse but the byproduct of a political deadlock. At issue is the money likely to flow from any national health insurance program. Psychiatrists, who are M.D.s, are not eager to share federal dollars with nonmedical psychologists. Psychologists, in turn, are usually Ph.D.s and generally unenthusiastic about the flow of Government funds to other workers lower on the mental health totem pole: group therapy leaders, marriage counselors and psychiatric social workers...
Much of the energy in the mental health field is now going into jockeying for Government and private reimbursement. In April the American Psychiatric Association hailed as "a terrific triumph" a federal court decision involving clinical psychologists in Virginia. It upheld the Blue Shield's policy that benefits cannot be paid to psychologists directly but only through medical doctors...