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...debate developed between spokesmen from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Senate Subcommittee on Health which is chaired by Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass...
...HEW and AMA proposals defend consumers' choice of existing insurance companies, while the Kennedy proposal would eliminated all but 15 federally approved companies...
...just as there is no right to sneeze on other people, an action considered more obnoxious but which is actually no more harmful than blowing smoke on other people. Smokers often defend their right to smoke in public under the banner of freedom of choice. For example, when former HEW Secretary Elliot L. Richardson '41 prohibited smoking in all of the Department's auditoriums and conference rooms, an indignant employee wrote to him protesting that such a restriction "is tantamount to suggesting I not drive my car to work because 35,000 persons were killed in auto accidents last year...
Walter Leonard, special assistant to President Bok, said yesterday he considered the plan to be too comprehensive to assess quickly. He also said, "HEW found our plan adequate, but groups are entitled to their opinion...
...regional officer for HEW, John Bynoe, who approved Harvard's plan last November, said yesterday. "We're glad when any school gives us a plan that meets the minimum standards of acceptability. We've been working with some schools for two years and still have not gotten that...