Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taking advantage of the Camp David momentum, Carter is not only fighting for unfinished bills that have been placed before Congress but is even reviving legislation that his opponents thought they had killed. He and Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joe Califano decided to resuscitate the hospital cost containment bill, which was suppressed in committee last summer by pressure from the medical lobby. Carter probably figures he has nothing to lose politically since the public is angry about inflation in general and about soaring medical costs in particular. In August, hospital costs rose .9%, second only to the 1.1% leap...
...every day. In the past year the dollar has declined 17% against the West German mark, 29% against the Japanese yen and 34% against the Swiss franc-and even 9% against the Indian rupee. The Carter Administration has responded with a Dr. Feelgood litany that the dollar's health is sound, and that it will recover from its indisposition if everyone will only wait long enough. But the world's money traders are not buying that happy talk and are now demanding fundamental shifts in U.S. dollar policy...
ALPEROVITZ's other major research project also concerns counter-productive profit motives, in regards to inflation. Contrary to Keynesian and neoclassical theory, Alperovitz believes government budget deficits have had little to do with the inflation of the past six years. The four necessities--food, housing, energy, and health care--account for over 80 per cent of inflation, he maintains. In health care, for instance, there is no check on greed--third parties, the insurance companies, pay for most treatment, and doctors and hospitals charge whatever the "market" will bear. The result: spiraling insurance premiums and profits, soaring medical costs...
...folks out there aren't all that happy with what is being spat out of our medical schools," Fitzhugh Mullan '64, director of the National Health Service Corps, said in a lecture last night...
...with absurdly low pension payments--$90 a month after 25 years of service, and a 10 per cent reduction if a worker retires before age 62, and did not improve the pension plan in the contract offer. Nor does the contract increase Blue Cross coverage or offer a dental health plan. In addition, the workers want a clearer commitment to affirmative action by the University, especially at the managerial level, where minorities are still underrepresented...