Word: wilber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other highlight of the meeting was a set of proposals for Government action to rein in runaway health-care costs. The proposals, by Wilber J. Cohen, a former Secretary of HEW, included: 1) setting fixed rates for doctors' charges for specific services, and 2) forcing public disclosure of the money that a doctor collects from federal and state medical-aid programs if the total exceeds $50,000. Finally, 16 major labor and civic groups resolved that, "Under no circumstances should funds for human social services be reduced...