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Carter and HEW Secretary Joseph Califano are betting that Bromberg is wrong about a complacent public. Indeed, many members of Congress are feeling so much heat from constituents that they are also seriously beginning to consider a long-range, broad solution to the whole problem of high health care costs. A surprising total of 21 bills
...become something of a whipping boy in the current cost-containment controversy, a symbol of the insanely soaring expenses of the U.S. medical care system. Government officials and consumers are questioning whether the benefits derived from the flood of innovative techniques of the past 20 years justify the high cost. Even physicians who traditionally have taken to the new technology with the enthusiasm of small boys trying out new toys, are voicing doubts...
Doctors agree that many of the new high-technology practices do not necessarily cure disease or even prolong life, but that should not be the only gauge of a technique's value. If the quality of life can be improved, they argue, that is sufficient justification for using it. Besides, says Dr. Cheves Smythe, professor of medicine at the University of Texas in Houston: "Our country doesn't believe in putting people on a hillside...
Franklin was first to find the finish line at Churchill Downs and, back home in Maryland, he basked last week in long overdue adulation. Neighbors decorated their houses with signs proclaiming WELCOME HOME, CHAMP! Later this week, his old high school will celebrate Ron Franklin Day, rare recognition for a truant who dropped out of school during his junior year...
...intense, passionate normality has been one of the reasons for his astonishing success. As an adolescent, he went dusting wildly over North Carolina back roads in his father's Plymouth, necked with girls until his lips were chapped and, after high school graduation, struck out for South Carolina as a drummer of Fuller Brushes...