Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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American Medical Association President Dr. Donovan F. Ward, a Dubuque, Iowa, surgeon, knew full well that his testimony would not "stay in the slightest degree the hand of the Senate in the approval of this bill." But the prospect of imminent congressional approval of the Administration's $6 billion-a-year medicare bill did not deter Ward from uttering some last words about his organization's opposition to the measure. Last week, before the Senate Finance Committee, he did just that, without rancor but with deep feeling...
...Three. Ward asked the committee to delete two of the bill's three main provisions: the social security-financed hospitalization plan for all people 65 and older, and a voluntary insurance program that would cost $3 a month and provide 80% of the cost of doctors' fees (after the first $50) and medical extras, such as X rays, lab tests and wheelchair rental. In their place, Ward suggested the A.M.A.'s "Eldercare" plan, an expansion of the present Kerr-Mills medical-assistance-for-the-aged program...
...first detailed account of this process is in Ward 7, a remarkable novel by Valeriy Tarsis, which was smuggled out of Russia last year and has now been published in London. It is at once a searing indictment of the Communist system and an eloquent witness to the fervor for freedom that nearly 50 years of Marxist indoctrination have not been able to extinguish...
...Patient. Tarsis' book is, in fact, more a documentary than a novel, for its hero. Valentine Almazov, and Author Tarsis are one and the same. Al mazov, a writer, is being treated in Ward 7 of a large Moscow mental hospital for the anti-state offense of smuggling manuscripts to the West. Tarsis himself spent six months in Kashchenko psychiatric hospital in 1962 and 1963 for sending The Bluebottle, a novel portraying the plight of intellectuals in Khrushchev's Russia, to a British publisher via a tourist. When he was released, Tarsis, now 59, went right to work...
...Ward 7's Almazov finds that among the 150 men in the ward, there is just one "genuine patient," the only one who is the "victim of anything except his lot as a Soviet citizen." The rest of the inmates fall into three categories: 1) "the failed suicides, classified as lunatics because it was assumed (by doctors and politicians, writers and ideologists) that anyone dissatisfied with the socialist paradise must be a lunatic"; 2) the "Americans"-Russians who had tried to get in touch with a foreign embassy or with tourists, usually to emigrate; and 3) "the less clearly...