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...Quart for Every Pint. "Too many," said Scranton, "simply take the line of least resistance, looking to Washington for solutions to every problem. They do not seem to realize that for every pint the national government gives in solutions, it takes a quart in authority and power. Today, for every three dollars sent by Pennsylvania to Washington as our contribution to federal aid programs, only one dollar comes back. One of the primary needs, if we are to save the federal system and permit the states the revenue to meet their own obligations, is the need for a fresh look...
...average charge of $25 a pint, the blood business is big business, and in most of the U.S. it has always been a bloody mess. In New York City there are 158 hospitals and other outfits-from the altruistic to the crassly commercial -that collect and handle blood with a bewildering variety of methods for typing, preserving and storing...
...York center will keep a running inventory of all blood available, classified by types (A, B, AB, and O), by various subtypes, and by Rh factor-a service that should save a lot of needless nonsense. Recently, New York Hospital sent to Boston for a pint of raretype blood, Metropolitan Hospital sent to Milwaukee for another, and Presbyterian Hospital sent to England. All three types were on hand in the city, though none knew where to find...
...Pint for Pint. All too often, the gratitude of patient and family for what may have been a life-saving transfusion is obscured by months of wrangling with the hospital over payment, at as much as $60 a pint, or replacement, at a rate up to three pints for one. Through the new center, any member of a blood credit program or his kin can wipe out a blood debt on a straight pint-for-pint basis. For those who have to pay, the top price is estimated...
...Most of their heart-disease patients had readings of up to 56%. Patient after patient obtained relief from repeated angina attacks, which cause fierce pain in the chest and left arm, along with an alarming feeling of suffocation. After the doctors bled them, removing about one-third of a pint of blood, the hematocrit level dropped into the normal range...