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...House Speaker Tip O'Neill and Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd to hold back on social legislation. Said Byrd: "We're not going to be trying to pass a lot of new programs." But Carter had long ago received that message, loud and clear. As evidence, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano last week revealed that the Administration intends to introduce only a modest national health plan this year. Carter had campaigned on a pledge to fight for a comprehensive medical insurance program, but his proposal would simply improve existing coverage, protect against catastrophic medical bills and cost $10 billion...
...HEW panel urges lifting of U.S. ban on IVF research
Jimmy Carter insisted that the bill had to be passed. Alfred Kahn, the Administration's anti-inflation strategist, declared that it would contribute more to curbing the rising cost of living than any other piece of legislation. HEW Secretary Joseph Califano termed it "the litmus test" for all members of Congress "on whether or not they have the guts to do something about inflation...
...more determined fight for passage this time, the President plugged the bill at a special White House press conference last week. He cited an alarming statistic: only ten years ago, a patient paid $533 for an average stay in a hospital; the average hospitalization now costs $1,634. An HEW study found that Americans spent less than 3% of the gross national product on health care at the turn of the century, now spend 9% and, at the current rate of increase, will be doling out 12%, or $1 trillion, annually by the end of the century. The cost...
...innovative administrator, he earned admirers and enemies throughout his tenure by decrying high doctors' fees and advocating preventive medicine and comprehensive health insurance for all Americans. Such iconoclasm cost Knowles the nation's top medical post in 1969, when his expected nomination as an assistant secretary of HEW was scuttled by conservative Republicans and the A.M.A. Undeterred, he went on to be come president of the $800 million Rockefeller Foundation in 1972, focusing domestically on problems of unemployment and population stabilization and, concerned with the interdependence of the developing and developed nations, sending more than half...