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...hospitals had been approved as of last week. Another 3,000 may be approved this month, but the extra strain put on those that do qualify is bound to be enormous. The Government has no way to even out the increased patient load, for Medicare registrants are free to choose their own doctor or hospital. Even if there were enough beds available, the nurse shortage is rapidly worsening; the nation has vacancies for 75,000 registered nurses and 25,000 practical nurses. Insofar as Medicare-backed nursing-home treatment is concerned, less than one-third...
...EXTRA INDIGENTS. And then there is Title 19, a little-publicized section contained in the Medicare act. It, too, will add to the U.S.'s new-patient load, for it extends existent federal programs-offering free health care to children under 21 of impoverished families and to adults between 21 and 65 who are blind or "disabled." Title 19 requires individual states to assume part of the cost, but seven states and Puerto Rico have already passed the necessary legislation...
...That's quite a load," he sighed, "when a car weighing 1,450 Ibs. is sitting on your head. But it didn't stay there long." Said Dan Gurney in disgust: "It seems like 33 of what are supposed to be the best drivers in the world ought to be able to drive down a little straightaway piece of road without running into each other. Everybody has a brake and an accelerator. If one of these drivers had a brain too, this wouldn't have happened...
Fairlie became so enamored of the Post that when he returned to England, he had the paper delivered every day. "The postman, laboring under the load, did not like it. But I formed a taste for American newspapers." By and large, he says, U.S. and British papers reflect their countries: "One earnestly involved in the business of power, the other resigned to watching from the sidelines...
...Right now, it seems only too small. While dormitories for Cowell near completion, students are jammed eight to each 58-ft. trailer, where, says one, "If you don't like your roommates, it's sheer hell." They file in long lines past a trailer steam kitchen to load cafeteria trays, eat in a field house. But the administration building is finished, classes are being held in the natural sciences building, and a second college, named for Adlai E. Stevenson, will open next fall...