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...Sorry, but John Gardner is the Secretary of HEW. I'm the Secretary...
...Negro's political evolution. Neither of the new mayors fits the traditional mold of the ghetto politician, seeking and getting solely Negro support and campaigning principally on racial issues in the style of Adam Clayton Powell. Nor are they products of the Negro middle class such as HEW Secretary Robert Weaver and Edward Brooke, who as public personages seem so nearly white that the Negro workingman is hard put to identify with them...
...high or low. In major cities, a day in one of the better hospitals costs $80 to $90, counting not only the semiprivate-room charge, food, treatment, drugs, nursing care and laundry but all the innumerable X rays and laboratory tests now inseparable from optimal care. One possibility: allow HEW to make a long-term contract with a hospital to treat patients at a flat rate; if the hospital can cut costs without trimming services, it can keep the difference...
Though Part B of Medicare has worked just about as well as Part A, it is also hopelessly in the red. Under the original law, HEW Secretary John Gardner was required to announce this week what the premium rates would be for 1968 and 1969. Last week he begged off, and both houses of Congress scurried to pass a reprieve bill, giving the Administration until Jan. 1 to decide what rates will become effective next April 1-most likely $4, depending partly upon what services Congress decides to cover...
...limitations as to what cash, liquid assets, equity in a car, and life insurance the family might be allowed to keep. California, though it set the four-member family income limit at a median $3,900, offered an estimated 2,500,000 eligibles every conceivable health service that HEW would approve...