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Carter planned to stop rising hospital costs by slapping a 9 per cent ceiling on revenue increases and major capital expenditures, enforcing the regulations with the clout of Medicare and Medicaid, the source of more than half the hospital industry's revenues. Backed by blustering Joe Califano, secretary of HEW, Carter pushed the bill on a reluctant Congress in April 1977. Since then, committee after subcommittee responded to heavy pressure from the medical lobby and near-total silence from public interest groups, dismembering the original bill...
Speaking on the task force's behalf, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano admitted that "the incidence of leukemia produced by low levels of radiation may be higher than scientists previously thought." But the report added: "Because the clinical features of cancer do not reveal its cause, it is impossible to distinguish the few [people] with radiogenic cancer from the larger group whose cancer was caused by other factors." What is more, it usually is impossible to determine just how large a dose of radiation a victim received. Consequently, although Califano professed dissatisfaction with the recommended safe level of 170 millirems...
Apparently not when he sticks to Government regulations. About 30 ninth-graders were watching an antismoking film at Scarborough High School in Houston when HEW Secretary Joseph Califano came whizzing through on a tour of the city's schools. He asked how many of the students smoked. "Be honest," he added. The only one who admitted to smoking was Shawn Galloway, 16, who has been puffing up to three packs a day since the age of ten. Califano told Shawn that if she gave up smoking, she and a friend could have a free trip to Washington...
Shawn smoked her last cigarette on the way home from school that day. But when a Houston reporter called HEW to ask about the trip to Washington, it turned out that there were problems. After consulting with the Surgeon General's office, HEW stipulated that Shawn would have to stop smoking for six months before she was really in the clear. And she would need written proof. And there were no Government funds to pay for her trip...
...expecting it," Shawn said of HEW. "Most bureaucrats are liars." But Califano did write that he would welcome her to Washington if she can stick by the rules until August. Will she be smoking by then? Said Shawn: "Are you kidding? Nobody will...