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...troika cannot always keep an eye on everything, and when it lets an issue slip by, the result can be chaos. Secretary of Health and Human Services Richard Schweiker, charged with developing a program to keep Social Security solvent, last May produced with Stockman's help a proposal to reduce sharply the future growth of pensions for people who retire at age 62. It was rushed to the White House on a weekend so that it could be discussed at a Cabinet meeting Monday morning, and an Administration position could then be presented at congressional hearings on Social Security. Meese...
Good Soldier Schweiker...
...Republican Senator from Pennsylvania, Richard Schweiker, 55, was a liberal spokesman for most of the Government's health programs. Thus, when he was appointed Secretary of Health and Human Services, many social welfare advocates breathed a sigh of relief. They still sigh when his name is mentioned, but with disappointment. Reason: Schweiker's go-along attitude toward the elimination of many of his department's functions...
When the 1982 budget for HHS was slashed by more than $3 billion, Good Soldier Schweiker hardly raised a yelp. But he has not yet come forward with proposals for less expensive ways to deliver the social services he once fought for as a Senator, or to contain health-care costs through greater competition and coordination. Moreover, he has joined the fight against programs like family planning, which the Administration opposed primarily on ideological, rather than budgetary grounds...
...President, do you endorse the Schweiker proposal...