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...Republican alternative proposing a federally assisted voluntary protection system, covering both hospitals and doctors; and 3) "elder-care," the American Medical Association's widely publicized plan, under which federal-state funds would help pay private premiums on the basis of need, in an extension of the 1960 Kerr-Mills Act authorizing aid to the medically indigent elderly...
...broadening of Kerr-Mills to grant federal-state medical help not only to indigent people 65 or older, as at present, but also to certain other needy people regardless of age-those blind and disabled, members of indigent families, and homeless children. They would receive a full range of doctor and hospital services, with other benefits left to the states. The minimum federal share of the program would be raised from...
...total estimated cost of the three-in-one medical care package per year would be close to $6 billion-$2.3 billion for hospital costs, $1.1 billion for doctors, $200 million for the enlarged Kerr-Mills bill, $2.1 billion more for social security benefits. Officials estimated that $5 billion would come from social security taxes and voluntary payments, the remaining amount from Government general revenues...
...Kerr's team did 30 special tests on volunteers, some of whom normally smoked but quit for a while during the experiment, some of whom did not smoke but took it up for a while for the sake of science. The results were the same in both groups: men who were using cigarettes excreted in their urine abnormally large amounts of an ortho-aminophenol known to be capable of causing cancer. Going off cigarettes reversed the effect. The researchers' conclusion: inhaling smoke into the lungs, a practice that would seem to have no bearing on cancer...
...course, English P. "Dramatic Interpretation and Background of Theatre," and the College's only course for credit in the performing arts. According to Harry P. Kerr, associate professor of Public Speaking, the English Department will probably not make an effort to resume the course...