Word: healthful
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...could fight through a tangle of complicated application forms. But the Opportunity Act proponents counter by saying that the Internal Revenue Service will have to set up a completely new bureaucratic network to administer the tax credits and collect much of the same data that the Office of Health. Education and Welfare already monitors. HEW, however, has come under fire recently for permitting rampant fraud and abuse of some of its financial aid programs...
Rabkin, however, says the real issue is not delaying the unions, but rather the quality of the health care Beth Israel can give to its patients. "It cost a hell of a lot of money and time to go through the appeals process, and we wouldn't do it for the purpose of delaying," he says. The hospital argued in its brief to the Court that patients' health could suffer if they heard violent arguments about unions, or if they read what he terms "scurrilous" pamphlets questioning the quality of Beth Israel's health care...
...only untrue, but irresponsible literature--unlike the unions, we can only say what is true during a union campaign." Rabkin and the hospital's lawyer, Robert Chandler, argue that the NLRB was outside its area of expertise in trying to rule on whether or not patients would suffer adverse health effects from reading literature criticizing the hospital...
Besides the mutual display of hostility evidenced in the disputes, the Supreme Court case presented important legal issues in the untested field of hospital labor law. Since Congress's inclusion of the hospitals under the NLRA in the 1974 Health Care Act Amendments, any legal battle has helped to set precedents by which to judge hospital labor disputes. One legal issue centered around the intent of Congress in including hospitals under the NLRA. The hospital argued that Congress, because it enacted special strike provisions for hospital employees and evidenced concern for the special health care function of hospitals, other labor...
...essential." In his opinion, Brennan says that the Board's decision was consistent with the Congressional intent of the legislation, for Congress did not specifically make any provisions prohibiting solicitation and distribution. Brennan dismissed the hospital's argument of the Board's lack of expertise in health matters, saying the Board's expertise lay in labor relations and Congress gave the NLRB authority to administer hospital disputes...