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...narrow majority, the Supreme Court held that states need not supply Medicaid funds to women who wanted abortions, nor did hospitals even have to perform the operations if they didn't want to. Since that decision, between 30 and 35 states have ruled, in some form or another, to restrict state funding for abortions. Through October 1977, Medicaid funds paid for an estimated 22,000 abortions in Massachusetts alone and more than 300,000 in the whole country. Medicaid has in fact saved state welfare agencies from having to dole out even more money than the cost of these abortions...
...levy-one reason why the energy bill has been bottled up for nine months. Carter has warned that if the bill is not passed soon, he will put a $5-per-bbl. import fee on foreign oil, but the cantankerous Senate last week voted to restrict his power to do so. The House may not go along...
Students also chafe at the idea of investing five to ten years in training. Says Weber: "I wanted to be self-reliant and established sooner in life than a medical career would allow." Some students also fear that increasing Government control will restrict the freedom and financial rewards of a medical career. At the same time, the outlook in other careers is brightening. Business and engineering are two fields now attracting many would-be physicians...
Union leaders complain that far more is being asked of wage earners than of anyone else. One contentious point is Carter's request that top company executives restrict their salary increases to 5% as a symbolic gesture for rank-and-file workers to follow. Complains United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser: "A 5% limit for people like General Motors Chairman Thomas Murphy, who makes just short of $1 million a year, is no great concession to fighting inflation...
Fourth, the Congress can reduce the farmers' costs by easing some of the stringent, and sometimes silly, environmental rules that restrict use of herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers...