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...less room to operate. Had the Administration clung to its original aim of a $3 billion surplus for fiscal 1971, explains a top Budget Bureau official, the effect would have been to encourage Congress to raise its spending sights. More important, Nixon's successful veto of the Labor-HEW bill last week (see following story) and his threat to impound other funds that he considers excess will probably inhibit congressional spenders...
...much with social justice as with law enforcement, Mitchell took a narrower view of his job -simply as a lawyer for the Government. Clark was dismissed by Mitchell's deputy, Richard Kleindienst, as "a sociologist, not an aggressive prosecutor." Said Kleindienst condescendingly: "He would have been better at HEW...
...more capable, since it too must divide its manpower between the North and South. As a result, the actions of both departments have been few and hesitant. Justice has filed only seven suits against Northern school districts in the last two years, five of them under the Johnson Administration. HEW has investigated only some 60 school departments in the past two years, and has sent letters of noncompliance to only...
Patchwork Program. In Washington, Medicaid is a headless monster. To the extent that it is run at all, it is controlled by one of the most cumbrously named offices in government: the Medical Services Administration of HEW's Social and Rehabilitation Service. Its commissioner, Dr. Francis L. Land, was summarily dropped from the post last July at the height of congressional criticism over Medicaid's failings. The Administration has still not replaced Land...
Congress designed Medicaid as a patchwork program. Each state could join after its plan was approved by HEW. The minimum benefits, which every state must provide for all "public assistance" (meaning welfare) recipients, are 1) in-and out-patient hospital care, 2) other laboratory and X-ray services, 3) nursing-home treatment and physicians' services. The patient's eligibility depends on the state's definition of need. That may be anywhere between $2,448 family annual income, as in Oklahoma, and $5,000, in New York...