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...costs every year. A recent GAO spot check revealed that 28% of those seeking benefits in New York City and Illinois' Cook County were actually ineligible. In California, young girls who do not wish to tell parents of their pregnancies are claiming poverty to obtain abortions under Medi-Cal, as that state's program is called. In Illinois, almost everyone who applied for admission to the state's $657 million Medicaid program was accepted without investigation...
...weeks ago, indeed, a fed-up Umberto tried to quit in protest against a government-imposed labor contract that he considered the last straw. Umberto himself had asked Italy's Socialist Labor Minister Luigi Bertoldi to medi ate a three-month-old strike and slow down among Fiat's 200,000 workers...
Ransom Demands. The S.L.A. communique early in the week demanded that Hearst provide $70 worth of "top" meats, vegetables and dairy products to everyone in California holding one of several certificates attesting to neediness: welfare cards, Social Security pension cards, food stamp cards, disabled-veteran cards, Medi-Cal (the state's version of Medicare) cards, parole or probation papers and jailor bail-release slips. The food was to be distributed through supermarkets for three days during each of the next four weeks, and the S.L.A. suggested that the program be supervised by several groups, including the Black Panthers, Cesar Chavez...
...American Medical Association opposes the plan on the familiar grounds that it impersonalizes the relationship between doctor and patient. The A.M.A. suggests instead a system of "Medi-credit" under which the Government would subsidize the purchase of private insurance by low-income families. Nor will the Administration go along with so radical a departure from free-enterprise medicine. It sent HEW Under Secretary John Veneman before the Senate hearings to describe the plan as "alien to our basic traditions," and too expensive as well. According to Veneman, the plan would cost $77 billion a year, much...
...those who are still fearful of losing their piece in an awkward moment, there is a more extreme solution. For between $650 and $1,350, "Hair-Anew" surgically attaches the piece to the scalp with half a dozen individual loops or sutures of Teflon-coated wire. "Medi-Hair" weaves the sutures in and out in a basting pattern; its $1,000 job is supposedly permanent. In one ad, a "Medi-Hair" wearer is shown hanging upside down with a 12-lb. weight attached...