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...product, averaging out to $1,225 for each American. The HHS report noted that the rapid increase in medical spending was caused in great part by the routine payment of two-thirds of all medical charges by Government programs and private insurers. "These disturbing figures," said HHS Secretary Richard Schweiker, "are the strongest argument for reforming the existing system of health-care-cost reimbursement...
...intervened. In addition to promising to pay off Meharry's $29 million construction loan for Hubbard Hospital, HHS pointedly instructed the U.S. Veterans Administration to expand an affiliation between at least one of the large VA medical centers in the Nashville area and Meharry. Said HHS Secretary Richard Schweiker, in explaining his department's intervention: "Many of Meharry's students have come from disadvantaged economic backgrounds. Its graduates have established a strong record of practicing primary-care medical specialties where they are desperately needed." Federal aid to Meharry follows logically from the Executive order the President signed...
...Schweiker's intervention could make the difference. Meharry has had only a limited affiliation with one VA hospital, in Murfreesboro, Tenn., 30 miles from Nashville. Contracts for medical staffing of the Nashville VA hospital have always automatically gone to Vanderbilt University, whose medical school did not graduate its first black M.D. until 1970. (This year 25 of its 418 students are members of minority groups.) Although the VA had a nondiscrimination policy at the time of Vanderbilt's first agreement with the Nashville VA in 1947, exceptions based on "local custom" were used then to segregate black patients...
...Security taxes. Fuller drew her last monthly check for $112.60 in December 1974 shorty after her 100th birthday. By then she had collected $20,944.42 in return for her $22. *Secretary of the treasury Donald Regan, Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan, and secretary of Health and Human Services Richard Schweiker...
...Schweiker backed into a buzz saw when he and Stockman jointly proposed a plan to reform Social Security by reducing benefits. Regardless of the degree to which the plan had merit, and elements of it had a lot, it was met with bipartisan outrage on Capitol Hill. Reagan had to disclaim it. For a man who served two terms in the Senate, Schweiker showed himself surprisingly inept in dealing with Congress. He earns a middling C, but only because he does not deserve blame for all of what has happened in his realm...