Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal Government would pick up all basic health costs for everyone whose income falls below a certain figure-roughly $4,200 for a family of four-and the costs of prenatal care for all mothers. The Government would pay for all care for infants in the first year of life, regardless of family income...
...President's proposal as inadequate, inflationary and dangerous. His own plan, the Senator noted, would fix doctor and hospital charges for everybody, the President's only for Healthcare patients. Thundered Kennedy: "This step is a regressive one, inconsistent with the goal of a truly single-class health care system. By failing to set a national budget, by failing to control doctors' fees in the private sector, by perpetuating two separate and unequal systems of care, the President's plan may well become the straw that breaks the back of the American health care system...
...elephant's chance of slipping through a Congress that is pinching pennies and looking forward nervously to the 1980 elections. At minimum, however, the Carter-Kennedy battle will keep the issue alive until the primaries begin. And if Kennedy does decide to square off against Carter, the health plan that sounds better to Democratic voters may have a say in deciding who whips whom...
Answer: C. Republican Senator Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming said one of his constituents had found the test "disgusting." The Senator demanded an explanation from the Department of Labor, which incorporates the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Answered Assistant Labor Secretary Robert Lagather: "This test is not part of the instructor course. I was as shocked and disturbed as you were." Lagather recommended a 30-day suspension without pay for the instructor who had used the quiz. Just for good measure, however, Wallop had the exam read into the Congressional Record, where presumably its vulgarity will serve as a good example...
Wear It in Good Health...