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That somber conclusion is shared by the Senate Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization, which has spent the past two years assessing the state of medical care in the U.S. Under the direction of Chairman Abraham Ribicoff, the subcommittee listened to scores of doctors, hospital administrators and Government bureaucrats. Their testimony adds up to a dismal tale of extravagant inefficiency, of reliance on slogans rather than thoughtful, effective solutions to the pressing health problems of the nation. As a result, although the U.S. is the richest country in the world, it ranks 18th in infant mortality and 22nd in longevity...
Empty Beds. Competition between different departments and agencies of Government makes for enormous waste, says the Ribicoff report. In Vallejo, Calif., for example, one hospital received a $607,000 grant under the Hill-Burton hospital-construction program. Meantime, another hospital received a $380,000 loan from the Small Business Administration to expand its facilities. The result: so many beds that half of them are usually empty. In San Francisco, interservice rivalry between the Army and the Navy resulted in the construction of separate hospitals. The cost to the taxpayer was an extra $10 million in building costs and $8.2 million...
...spite of antibusing statements by President Nixon, Senator Ribicoff and various Southern Governors, the fact remains that the very children who are being bused today are America's only hope to erase tomorrow the segregated housing patterns that have made busing such a burning issue...
...from Saigon's black market in recent years. The money was deposited in an account designated Pry Sumeen 677, a cryptonym derived from the names of three Indian families involved in black-marketeering in Saigon. The Pry Sumeen account has recently been active again, according to Senator Abraham Ribicoff. Last week he charged that money from a U.S.-backed fund intended to stabilize the Laotian currency (whose basic unit is the kip) turned up in the same account...
AMID the furor over the Stennis and Whitten amendments, the forced resignation of HEW Civil Rights Chief Leon Panetta and Senator Abraham Ribicoff's blistering attack on Northern hypocrisy, the nature and precise scope of existing U.S. law on race and the schools have largely been obscured. At issue are two sets of vital distinctions: the difference between integration and desegregation, and that between de jure, or governmentally imposed, and de facto, or accidental residential segregation...