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...drugs of the same type (prednisone) range from $1.25 to $11 for 30 tablets, he declared: "The taxpayer should not be forced to pay $11 if the $1.25 drug is equally effective. To do this would permit robbery of private citizens with public approval." He asked Congress to let HEW enforce a reasonable price scale for drugs used under Medicare and Medicaid...
...fact, Gardner - the ablest administrator of urban reform in the U.S.-had inspired the coalition in the first place. More than a year ago, sensing the imminent fall of congressional axes on Great Society funding, HEW's Secretary told a group of university presidents that the "nation would benefit greatly by a revival of local leadership outside Government." He warned a Cleveland audience last April: "It will be a sad end to a great enterprise if the epitaph for our society turns out to read: 'All the best people bemoaned the quality of leadership, but none sought...
...Eighteen months ago he suffered a heart attack, and last month he was hospitalized for a coronary deficiency. Last week President Johnson announced that Trowbridge is leaving for health reasons. He is the third Cabinet member to resign in the past three months -after Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and HEW Secretary John Gardner...
...phrase he himself had used three years earlier -was little more than a slogan. With a rare combination of executive ability, intellect and idealism, he transformed the great social enactments of the 89th Congress-among them Medicare and the 1965 school act-into viable administrative programs. During his tenure, HEW's spending (excluding social security and other trust programs) nearly doubled, to $13 billion; the Government, for the first time, took a major role in the financing of elementary and secondary education and, after more than a decade of inaction, Washington began to enforce meaningful desegregation of Southern school...
Like Mother. In the process, Gardner gave HEW a sense of purpose, turning what Johnson had called an unmanageable "hodgepodge" into a well-ordered, efficient department. The Secretary, the President observed last year, "does the same thing McNamara does, but in a compassionate way. He does it like Mother would do." Unlike Robert McNamara, whose primary loyalty was to the President he served, rather than to the Defense Department, Gardner was devoted to the realization of a better, healthier, more equitable life for the American people...