Word: hewed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the question of whether to cut or not to cut, too many surgeons sharpen the scalpel. The patient in such cases becomes the unwitting victim of a system that is supposed to safeguard his health, not jeopardize it. Of the 700,000 people now in acute-care hospitals, HEW estimates that 100,000 should not be there...
...curb costs, Califano has placed ceilings on payments for a dozen laboratory tests, ranging from blood tests to urinalyses, and is demanding better policing of programs. He also wants to set up a group of physicians willing to give a second opinion as to whether surgery is needed. HEW plans to publicize the fact that the Government pays for consultation with another doctor, which is surely cheaper than an unnecessary operation...
...being passed by Congress. They want to try to reduce the rate of increase by 2% in 1978 and in 1979; only if they failed would they be subject to federal controls. So far, hospitals have succeeded in slowing the rise in costs by more than 2%, but HEW is skeptical about their continuing...
Many of them were never billed, because the HEW computers were not working on their cases. Says Leo Kornfeld, a former computer executive hired by Califano to clean up the mess: "If a student was in default, we had no system for detecting it. He could even take out a second loan while in default on the first loan. We wouldn't know about...
...many of these schools were guilty of misleading advertising, deceptive salesmanship and substandard instruction. For example, an airline personnel training school in Kansas City, Mo., that received federal money enrolled 15,000 students, graduated 2,000, and found jobs for only 102. Even after this disclosure by the FTC, HEW approved $200,000 more in student loans for the school?which has since been dropped from the approved list...