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special risk-of hearing an abnorinal
child, or he may be held liable for
By FLLEN GOODMAN
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problema. our new skills, bring up a
host of new problems And once agair
physicians carry the burden nt solsing
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MSIER SPEAKER, I KNOW
"M TAKING MY POLTICAL
UPG INTO MY HANDS BY
the government after the act
takes effect on July L.
in truth, however it is difficult
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But now, according to a report
by the Washington Post, hundreds
of, government officials _
But now, ironically the old gap lias
widened in a.dffeees direction. From
acute, personal tragedy: • ■
QUESTIONABLE STUDY? For
years businessmen have been com-
bureaucratic sluggards — it's the
patient who pays. The difference
between what Medicare will allow and
what doctors charge, whether made
up by supplemental coverage or paid
out of the patients' pockets, has
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Want to have your say about
community related probfems. to
be heard. to have an influence on
events that shape yrrur city.-
county, state. nation'’
The Record-Chronicle w elcomes .
letters from its readers, however.
In 1973. after 15 years as governor. I
CASTRO'S COMPLAINT Cubas Rockefeller resigned. The move was I
widely read as a step toward another I
president ia I campaign in 1976 i
Science gives all but answers
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ference, - They are suing her for
payment
Unfortunately, Mrs. Hall's is not an
isolated case increasingly. doctors
across the country, are refusing to
take Medicare patients "on assign-
ment "■ — the term for a doctor's
Growth needs management
relations ebet ween the United States
and Communist China He com-
Nationally the assignment rate has
dropped from 64 percent in 1967 to 50
percent in 1977. In Ohio, investigators
for Sen Howard Metzenbaum, D-
Ohio, found that only 35 percent of
Medicare cases are accepted on the
government's terms.
federal regulatory process
But there is another study that casts
doubt on Weidenbaum ‘s hair-raising
report. It was done by economist
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You would think that in the
wake of Watergate, Koreagate
and the General Services Ad-
The fact that they could not
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xentis’: can t, really shou us the ■
way befucen our abilities and w B
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But. It seems to*n - unreasepable W
and unfair that du tors shduld fina ■
hemehes nou on the hot seat in thia ■
Lap faking the rap for our oun un I
certainties o .
/ Medicare officials use formulas
anywhere from six to 30 months
A -s old to calculate reasonable fees.
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St Louis based Center for the Study of
American Bsiness. Anderson
Anderson Afderson Weidenbaum
them . ___
Since • the 1973 suprene ourt
abovtion.ruling, the two most famous
abortion trials have seen physi ians
plaining atlout the federal regulations
that hamper their productivity and
force them to spend many man-hours
fillingout governmental forms in
quintuplicate.
The most widely quoted study of the
facilities. Certain parts of the city
have continuous problems with sewet
.lines But these are not problems that
growth wiLL cuceILanythingad.
ditional. population would put added
strain on streets, schools, and sewer
lines.
Let us hope that we do not join this
faddish bigger is-better policy that
Dr Gunter described Let us improve
for the
of the new.
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But I think we can get a hint ot the
cnfhiets Only the Right To-Life
believers enjoy the luxury ot moral
abnlutism The rest of us, whether w
support the Supreme Court deccisionor
back the narrower options of th»
To assure a fair hearing for all.
I
think much
the notion that the scientist was the
Handmaiden of Progress If there was
a gap between w bar we'w anted to do
it never happened, but Rockefeller
did become vice president by ap-
pointment He yielded his position on
the 1976 ticket, a move Gerald R
Ford's strategists thought would help
them gain conservative support
He didn’t complain publicly, but he
told Ford's political advisers that his
departure would not satisfy the
conservatives, not with Ronald
Reagan available t challenge the
president: ———
By The ;
Familie
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—letters nust include I Ue signature •
andfull address of the author, plus
a telephone numtier, if available.
. |Q assist W verification All letleri.___
will be verified for authenticity
To The Editor.
Some people suggest that the
president be limited to a single term
of six years While this could be
beneficial in the sense of reducing
politicking currently associated with
the early quest for a second term, it
suffers from a major drawback The
To The Editor
Please accept my congratulations
for the fine article in Sunday's
Record-Chronicleliied "Gunter:,
Texas Growth Dangerous " You gave
Peter Gunter s comments the position
they deserve — the front page
There are many of us who live 'n
and love Demon whocould not agree
with Dr Gunter more We like the fact
that Denton is a small city built on an
eluded also
The focus of the' bill is to
eliminate workers from the
private sectors coming into
government long enough to learn
the ropes, then returning to
private jobs aimed at securing
federal research grants or
government contracts
Several affected officials fear
the new law would leave them
virtually unemployable outside
------.. components, to make the totals
estimated that federal red tape costs,. arrived at suspect and of questionable
companies — and thus ultimately validity."' .
eomsumers — 1102 bnlon this year
Accepted at iaee value, this'estimate
would be a serious indictment of the
not based in logic
apparently saved the tiny life of
Muntaha Ibrahim Muntaha had been
born a month before weighing only
pound,, 8 ounces the size .4 an
Then Agnew watche in em-
barrassment as Rockefeller an-,
mounced that he wasn't going to run
recent federal compromises arem
refativints We try to-(nd our way E.
hrugb the ethicalthicket esuebE
vur < e by < ase, tracing the path M I
lesser vills uuitjl sr make a judgmen 1 »
never been meant to provide
qualified experienced people for
business
In’fact, it should work the other
way around .1.
Government service should be
exactly that — service to the *
government It should be an
honorable professidn within itself
and it should be above reproach
.Government workers should
_ have to work within a strict code
of ethics
plained to a visiting congressional
delegation that our recent reeognition
• of Peking was a power play by the
Carter administration
government, also extends to
two years the ban ontacting for a
private party in issues that were
under the policy-maker 's "of-
ficial responsibility" in the year
before leaving public office
But that is as it should be
Government employment has
BOSTON — Whertwasakid we
used to inareh into the sehool
auditorium everfew months tn see a
film in some never ending series on
And he cgncludes,that.
. he perceives as the-
limitations of Weidenbaum s study,
"it is impossible ... say whether
this estimate is too high or too low,
only that it has enough questionable
letters must be hmttort to u ton
word maximum Anonymous
letters are never printed *
surely also recommend a test called
amnocentesis which is given in the
Dortorespestally anthetrustem. "produrnbiyjenendenecpsnsarfea
of the issues of life and death in this- learn if the seus is nhealthy and
job seems hardiy armdextmetor'ornhorto 1
" ang the nospital-sugohnle-thesvasgoinuomtina
existing lifetime bans on This is painfully obvious an the most group S doctors in a teaanother
representing outsiders before the controversial issue or an, abortron hosptat anmXd that California
government on issues in which Recently the New York- Court of - -.""".tattheyhad
the official had "personal and Appeals ruled that a doctor must
substantial ' dealings while m —
against the cost of supporting the groups was meeting in Woodstock,
watchdogs . . YL. to plan a campaign for
. A.. . , Rockefeller when word came that he
also guestions the cost data had announced publicly he wouldn t
Weidenbaum used to arrive at hs$12" beacandidat•
ilion fizure And h cencludes-that. Two campaigns later, then-
given what he perceives as the" , Maryland GovSpiro T Agnew set up
a committee to draft the New-York
governor for presidential nomination
Aderessyour tetters to "Our
Readers Say" Denton Record
Chronicle, TV Box 369, Denton
. Texas 76201.
.things they ordered doctors to lecture
women seeking abortiors alLabout the
Atages of fetal development They
required that tuo dis tors tie present
fOr " late term abortions and-. take
----.‘vught U» Baby
_ Louise to the machinery that sup
experience of , ported Karen Ann Quinlan we are
luke go to the moon and uhat we
Jere able hi do we were sure that
given enough, time, andiranes,
science would Make It All Possible
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i-wy am dinary efforta to say
viable unborn child---
presidential nomifating-tme
Never minid his crackdown on
welfare abuse, his law and order
-“ Stance, his essentially, conservative
■ foreign policy To 'the conservative*
who often bestow, and always can
deny s’ Republican presidenttat
nomination, he was the liberal big
government governor of New York
That was obstacle erough But
Rockefeller added some political
' miscalculations of his own.
- „The-early feekoningofthe-- 960-
Repubitcan presidential campaign
ranked him a potential, and for
midable challenger to then-Vice
• Presiderit Richard M. Nixon He had
just won the first of his four election*
as governor of New York He was a
fresh face a winner, and anoption tor
Republicans who didn't care for
Nixon 1 ..I-
internal ionafknd domestic situations
’ in change quickly Why should the
public have to wait six long years
before having its say in the matter of
who occupies . the white House'-
scientists, educators and
researchers — may resign this
spring to avoid coming under a
stringert new code of ethics
______ aimed at curbing conflicts of
interest. “
The new law that has the
federal officials packing tor the
outside worl covers all govern
ment employees at grade GS16 or
above or earning more than
—P $42,500: That includes most,
everyone in a policy-making
position as well as judges,
members of Congress and senior
congressional staff members
e- Political appointees are in
ministratio embarrassment, to imagine that anyone wh-could ------... „
would lay to rest any complaints _ then have the (
government scandal government behigd them, could now able to do all sorts of things
not find a job in this country's not sure we want to do
business sector
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Kenneth Edelin in Roston and
William Waddill in California on
trial for homicide. : -
In Akron. mo,tast year the City
Council adopted a severe^ Sind
Some of them setabout organizing I
... for-Rackefemer,quzetly because the I
personar-et of stat'Jicih l U" In other words. Allen suggests that GOP establishmenwasNixon’s That
P ' “ 56 ' statistics. 11 is an the saving to consumers'achieved by put them on a limb, and Rockefeller I
keeping federal watchdogs on the tail cut it off by announcing late in 1959 I
of Big Busirtess should tie weighed ' that Tie wouldn't run One of those I
. . , • ___ . ’ —— Julius Allen for the Congression)
skyrocketed from 98^111100 10)969 to Research service, and has
a stunning 9699 million in 1977, virtually unnoticed. • ' g
„Foruelder y Americans like Lucille A major fault Allen finds with the
imerenslmuci of MedaYirhatmen Weidimmaem. -odyminhattt vmar ‘ In ha best professoriai maner. p
is exceeded only by their need for thebenertsorregenatin theeyaluezo Castro predicted that formal
medical services, the failure of the costorrttsiat ura thonsothatane diplomatic, tie. with his mentors
bureaucrats and the doctors to settle cost, could be determined " 38 - Marxist rivals wouldn't be good for
, - ■ ’ ._____I the future of U.S foreign policy
Rocky’s
big goal =
eluded him
Hv W Ai ntt R MEARS
O' Sprcial ( ortespondent I
W ASHINGTON AP - Hubert H
~ Humphrey called hi* the politics o
“v Nels M Ro kefeller didn t give
' a name but he < ampaigned with the
sameverve for l he same elustve goal
They spanned the same political
enet it and. they died a year
(part They toth, wanted be
pres)depts Thiey bu got to be ike
Dtrsidents |
A rival once scorned Rockefelers
H—campaign-style a* ih*i ni * h^.l
•lapping baby kissing, blintz eating
politictan Rocketetler was all of thal I
For nearly 20 years Republican j
Rih kefefler and Democrat Humphrey I
were fixture* ot their party tl
-■ presidential- campaigns, either
running or considering it -|
ForwiaaFferenc-——1
Humphrey s problem was that. I
much as most Democrats liked him, I
they fsneHty liked someone else
better. He was everybody's second
' shosre except in 1968, when hegamned I
nomination as. the. candidate of a I
sharply div tded party y . I
But Hockefeller was, from his
political beginning 20 years ago 'he I
New if you lump all of these doeton
- awytogetht thepossibiutyexi,
thaf Hie same doctor couid
resporsibie lor 111 telling a" woman
—— that, she might have an abmorma
birth 2 informing the womangltl.
entire fetal development; imv
seeing an amniocentesis 4
- 'forming an abortion saving
paying Hie fetime emtssof special' These twv- stories show a near* abnormal fetus or 16 for a homlcide
_ . , . collision ofrourscientife know tiow
Teeuug mean that, for example, between the abtity to detect Down •
r'L ctor“ho Is suibconscious tand - syndrome and abort a midhteru fetus
2sou.0nd he one who isn’t LU save i and ta abit, t save a uounce
he city of Lot I must nowadvise any baby Rather than resolving old
“ omuti over 35 or 4 of lhe higher risk
of Down s. syndrome The doc lor must
Patient pays penalty for big ‘Medigap
N By JACK ANDERSON ---------------- -------—---- .2 . < 5
/ Syndicated Colum nis i ---- AMdedka --"=-------------- • ________ their differences . is
- WASHINGTON - Lucille R Hall of 65"
Columbus, Ohio, is85 years old, with a “Nt.,
monthly income of 9302 from the 2 ’ «
Railroad Retirement Pension Fund A •
She. is precisely; the sort of person 4 A
Medicare was set up to protect aha
But because of the continuing battle .
between federal bureaucrats and the Anderson
• medical fraternity over -what tori-
estitutes reasonable doctors fees, the
widowed Mrs Hall was saddled with
some $700 ip bills following operations
T to install and then repair a defective
pacemaker
When pleasured against the more
than 920.006 total of her medical bills
for the two operations, $700 isn’t agreement to accept the -goveri,
much when measured against a $302- ment’s determination of a reasonable
a-month income, it's a staggering fee as full payment. When a doctor
sum. . . agrees to take a case on assignment.
Grant Anesthesia Associates billed he in effect swallows most of the
Mrs Hall 9210 for an hour's work difference between the Medicare
Mrs Hall submitted the bill to payment and his standard fee . “
Medicare and a private insurance The major problem, according to
company which sold her supplemental the doctors, is that Medicare officials
y "Medigap" coverage: But they use formulas that are anywhere from
decided that a reasonable charge for six to 30 months old on which to base
theeezeethesiologist ’ services woudld their determination of "reasonable"
4 hav. been 9122. Since Grant feesMote and more doctors are
Associates had not agreed to accept refusing to accept the governments
the Medicaredecision on its fee, this assignment fees, which are lower than
left Mr. Hall to pick up the 988 dif- those paid by non Medicare patient.
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economic base of agriculture and
education And we would like to keep •-countless problems that growth
it that way always brings Denton should stay
yes.'there are problems with our Denton and not become a suburb of
city For example, soma of the streets. Dallas- 1 .
are inhorrtble condition Some of the • ' P Leslie Smith ’ REAt EAS_ar
schools need more room and better —Dentr - ------M-S —NFL-N I "*
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