Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fights racial discrimination and sends welfare money to the needy. The department's health services send a steady stream of payments to recipients of Medicare and Medicaid. HEW conducts more than half the nation's biomedical research into cancer and other killer diseases. The Food and Drug Administration's regulations control products that account for about 25 cents of every dollar spent by consumers. HEW'S education division distributes aid to schools and colleges and helps fund Sesame Street, the TV program that delights and instructs the nation's small fry. There are other programs for ethnic studies...
...higher spending for HEW was on the agenda. Regulations were eased, and the cost of aid to families with dependent children ?the biggest welfare program?began to soar. When Johnson became President, HEW was transformed by the biggest growth of federal programs in the history of the nation...
...readily admits. But they were easy to pass in those days because there was much more optimism, not to say naivete, about solving the nation's problems, and a booming economy made the money available. "In the 1960s," says Califano, "all these social programs didn't seem to cost the American people anything because they were all making more real income. Today, when we increase our investment in one group of people, we are taking it away from some other group...
...work for HEW, are among the defaulters. They are now being dunned, though they have not been fired. But even as it cracks down, the Administration is adding to the problem. Carter has proposed a $1.5 billion program to extend college student aid to cover most of the nation's middle-class families. The aim of the plan is to head off a bill proposed by Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Bob Packwood that would allow parents to deduct up to $500 from their income tax for every child they had in college or private school. The White House claims...
...cost of helping the nation's victims of disease and misfortune is high. Every time HEW provides a life-saving dialysis for one of its 40,000 patients with impaired kidneys, it spends $146.79; each patient costs $22,900 a year. Each of the 442,000 disadvantaged youngsters being prepared for school through Head Start costs the Government $ 1,604 a year. Each of the 21.5 million Americans on Medicaid costs HEW an average of $532 annually...