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...Totally opposed to such controls, the hospitals have responded with a bill of their own, which has a better chance of being passed by Congress. They want to try to reduce the rate of increase by 2% in 1978 and in 1979; only if they failed would they be subject to federal controls. So far, hospitals have succeeded in slowing the rise in costs by more than 2%, but HEW is skeptical about their continuing...
...been placed by states in rundown housing, where they are unable to care for themselves and get no follow-up treatment. Certain areas have become saturated with these patients, who are often resented and feared by their neighbors. After releasing the results of a House committee survey on the subject last month, Democratic Congressman Claude Pepper commented: "We have a major scandal on our hands...
...period of retrenchment and reappraisal, even an activist like Califano realizes he cannot forge ahead with many innovative programs. But during the campaign Carter promised a program of national health insurance and ordered Califano to produce one before the end of 1978. At a White House meeting on the subject last week, Califano urged the President to support a broad program of coverage that would be phased in over a period of five to ten years. Califano argued that a comprehensive program, including private plans, would be the best way to bring medical costs under control and, in the long...
...amendment would undo almost a decade of egalitarian tax reform. The basic rule on capital gains has long been, and still is, that only half of them are subject to income tax; until 1969, the maximum tax on capital gains was 25%. But beginning in 1970, liberals who considered that tax rate to be an undue favor to the rich raised the maximum tax on the biggest capital gams reaped by individuals to 49.1%,* by far the highest rate in the industrial world; the top rate on corporate capital gains is 30%. Steiger would set the clock back to 1969?...
...says, adding that the questions of size and superficiality are separate issues. "You can design larger courses to be as good as smaller courses," he notes, pointing to Ec 10 as the model of a course that, despite its size, still maintains a detailed approach to a complex subject. "I don't think introduction has to be superficial," he concludes. What will, in the long run, determine the success or failure of the Core will be the ability and willingness of the Core committees to enforce the guidelines on course selection, and to find professors willing to teach...