Word: medi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ticket costs 80?. No critics are invited. The playgoers are peasants and factory workers. The show is called Grande Pantomima con Bandiere e Pupazzi Piccoli e Medi (Grand Pantomime with Banners and Puppets Small and Medium), and it is a phenomenal theatrical event. On its present tour, which began last October, it has played in 138 different towns and villages of northern and central Italy, mostly on one-night stands, to audiences ranging from 500 to 3,000. Everywhere the reception is astonishing. One evening recently, in the tiny village of San Martino in Fiume, 540 of the 800 inhabitants...
...come from the backgrounds of the men who direct it. Before he came to Harvard, Pollack had served as professor of administrative medicine at Columbia and director of Nelson Rockefeller's Committee on Hospital Costs in New York. In his years in New York, Pollack used to buy medi- cal service plans for three million people. By the time he came to Harvard in 1965, Pollack says he "came with a national outlook...
Sympathy from Romney. California embraced Medicaid early and enthusiastically but changed its name to Medi-Cal. Now it threatens to become Medi-Lo-Cal. In mid-August, California Health and Welfare Administrator Spencer Williams ordered a $210 million cut in Medi-Cal outlays to keep them within the state budget. Biggest cuts would have been in non-emergency surgery, length of hospital stay, drug bills and dental care. But a superior court judge declared the cutbacks illegal. Governor Reagan appealed, and the State Supreme Court is expected to hear the case in about a month. Meanwhile, Reagan has threatened those...
Against this backdrop, Reagan invited eight Governors to confer with him in San Francisco on Medicaid. Only Michigan's George Romney found it politic to attend, briefly, for the final session. Reagan told assembled health and welfare officials: "Unless Medi-Cal is revised and revamped, it not only can but most assuredly will bankrupt our state." California has a higher proportion of its population on welfare-though not necessarily of the medically needy-than New York State...
Multiphasic testing seems to be so ideally suited to mass preventive medi cine that a bill to start such a program nationally has already been introduced in the House and Senate. And at last week's committee discussion, hardly an opponent of multiphasics could be found. One of the few opposition wit nesses was Dr. Arthur Rappoport, a member of the board of the College of American Pathologists. Though he argued that the accuracy of multiphasic testing is still unproved, Rappoport later admitted favoring such a system "if the labs were run by pathologists...