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...electoral system may indeed lead to a presidential election deadlock similar to the Hayes-Tilden race in 1876. That would force Congress to make a change. But in the absence of such a crisis, a small but crucial bloc is likely to continue to force Congress to hew to a line of thought expressed in 1956 by Senator John F. Kennedy, who four years later was himself involved in a presidential election in which his electoral-vote margin was large, his popular plurality razor thin. "It seems to me that Falkland's definition of conservatism is quite appropriate," Kennedy...
...impersonalizes the relationship between doctor and patient. The A.M.A. suggests instead a system of "Medi-credit" under which the Government would subsidize the purchase of private insurance by low-income families. Nor will the Administration go along with so radical a departure from free-enterprise medicine. It sent HEW Under Secretary John Veneman before the Senate hearings to describe the plan as "alien to our basic traditions," and too expensive as well. According to Veneman, the plan would cost $77 billion a year, much of it at the expense of other programs...
...HEW experts returned to the drawing board, but their revisions still would permit instances in which a four-person family headed by a woman could receive more in federal assistance than she would be likely to earn. Further, FAP's so-called work incentives are inadequate in the view of all committee members. It would be possible for an FAP family to increase its earnings by $1,000 and realize as little as a $200 gain in actual income-because the $1,000 increase would cut off food stamps and other benefits...
Conceding imperfections, the bill's supporters argue that it is more generous, equitable and work-oriented than any yet devised, and that its guarantee of an annual income is a historic forward step. But Committee Chairman Russell Long and others are wary of HEW cost estimates, noting that Medicaid now consumes almost $3.5 billion a year, five times HEW's original projections. Long and most other committee members favor further experimenting with pilot projects...
...head of the HEW investigating team said when it arrived here in March that no university had ever satisfied HEW's requirements without making at least a few changes...