Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concept of a negative majority was destined to be a recurring theme in this convention, as it has been in national discussions on issues ranging from tax reform to health insurance to nuclear power plants to school desegregation. Beer, true to his reputation as The Great Federalist, said the answer to solving the country's spending problems rested not with the prevalence of stingy conservatism or spendthrift liberalism--but in "better bureaucratic machinery to control the spending--more selective spending...
...second day of the conference, August 28, was highlighted by Kennedy's address to all the governors on health insurance, an event every player in the house was waiting for. The Sheraton ballroom, newly furnished for the governors with a table and state flags, was jammed with waiting staff, press and state troopers. In the wake of a Clamshell Alliance picket against nuclear power plants going on outside, four state troopers were assigned to guard Gov. Meldrim Thomson all day. Security and expectations tightened...
Dukakis introduced the issue of health insurance and its chief advocate, Kennedy, to the front of the room. As the crowd hushed, Kennedy broke into his appeal, pointing to the illustrative charts behind him, reciting the facts and figures he has come to know cold since 1969. His voice rose and broke, and his face was pink in the TV camera floodlights, as he spilled a ballroom-full of Kennedy electricity...
...have to do is ask any senior citizen how much they are paying for health care today. Your association is already on record as recognizing the existence of a national health care crisis. But I know as you know that the issue on the minds of every governor these days is basically one issue--Proposition 13. But I would say that if there is one example of government out of control, it's in the health care area. If there is one example of inflated costs with less services, it's health care. If there is one issue that people...
...submit that there is no way, NO WAY you are going to get a handle on health costs unless you commit this nation and these states to a national health insurance plan...