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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
CARTER IS RIGHT when the points to escalating hospital costs as a major source of inflation, but his ceiling on revenues is at best a stop-gap measure. More fundamental changes are needed, but as usual the public seems solidly set in its apathetic ways. Everyone has a hospital horror story, but few maintain a running interest in the issues of hospital organization and economics. For most people, serious illnesses are rare, and when they do happen insurance cushions the blow. The average patient pays only 8 per cent of his hospital bill, though this fee can still seem catastrophic...
Stiles's record-breaking vault culminated a season in which, despite pulling hamstring and achilles muscles, the Biology major placed first in every meet, including the GBCs and Heptagonals, before going on to win the Easterns and Nationals in consecutive weekends...
...know this junior woman who lives over in Lowell House. The real jock type--you know, she's played varsity hoop, soccer and ran track. Yeah, she pretends to be an academic. You know, a Fine Arts major (though she says she's writing a thesis next year...
...your car company" slogans, along with the famous "Sign of the cat" for Lincoln-Mercury. The theme at Chrysler will be engineering, and Astronaut Neil Armstrong will apparently remain as the corporate spokesman. Whether K&E will be able to improve the fading Chrysler quality image is a major question. Says a Detroit ad agency chief: "Iacocca could not quickly change the company's cars, so he changed what he could-the advertising...