Thursday, January 11, 1933
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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McCarthy slaps war costs
LOS ANGELES — (UPI)—Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy accused President Johnson today of being willing to pour $30 billion a year into Vietnam, but not to provide one-third of that to wipe out poverty in America.
McCarthy, launching his first major West Coast campaign trip, charged in a prepared speech that the "nation's priorities have become distorted" with the escalation of the Vietnam war.
"In the last two sessions of Congress, total appropriations increased by $38 billion—$35.4 billion for war, $2.6 billion for the citizens of America," McCarthy said.
"We can spend $30 billion a year in Vietnam, but not provide the $11 billion a year that Sargent Shriver says could eradicate poverty in America.
McCarthy said the rioting in Detroit, Newark and Los Angeles "last summer and in summers before that" could not be written off as a "Negro problem.
"It is an American problem," he
Senate sets to probe Medical fees
WASHINGTON—(UPI)Four Senate committees are preparing separate investigations into the unprecedented increases in the cost of medical care,notably physicians' fees and hospital charges
With the Johnson administration pinpointing the rising cost of medical care as the single most inflationary aspect of the nation's economy, congressional concern was expected to produce a series of critical hearings dealing with almost every major phase of the $40 billion a year health industry.
Included in the various studies will be a close look at the relationship between cost increases and the policies of government and private health insurance programs.
While final details are still being ironed out, the big health care investigation shapes up this way:
Government operations subcommittee on executive reorganization, headed by Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff, D-Conn., a former secretary of health, education and welfare; hearings to begin next month or in March will examine physicians' incomes and possible fee abuses. Physicians' fees jumped 7.8 per cent in 1966 and about 7 per cent last year compared to only 3.8 per cent in 1965—before Medicare went into effect for 19 million Americans.
—Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust and monopoly, headed by Sen. Philip A. Hart, D-Mich., has been conducting a series of hearings on doctors' relationships with various health industries including a charge that some doctors own shares in the small drug companies that produce only the pills they prescribe.
-Labor and Public Welfare Committee, under Chairman Lister Hill, D-Ala., expected to look into the over-all hospital dilemma.
Hospital charges have increased 31 per cent over the past two years. Room charges of $50 a day are now common, and $100 a day bills are expected shortly at some New York City hospitals.
—Finance Committee, headed by Sen. Russel B. Long, D-La.; oversees the operation of the Medicare program, providing hospital and doctor bill coverage for those 65 and over, and Medicalaid, a federal-state program that provides free health care for welfare recipients.
said, "Most of the persons involved in the riots were Negroes who suffer not only the degradations of institutionalized poverty, but also the humiliation and frustration of discrimination and segregation.
"We must recognize also that the frustrations of the poor and
the unpleasantness of our cities cannot be separated from the war in Vietnam. The administration assures us we can win the war in Vietnam and at the same time alleviate the hopelessness of the poor and the exploited in our own country."
War tolls reflect heavy fighting
SAIGON — (UPI) — Viet Cong and North Vietnamese regulars killed or wounded 2,585 allied troops and South Vietnamese civilians last week, official figures disclosed today. The Communists themselves suffered a record 2,-868 troops killed.
A total of 184 American troops were killed and 1,132 were wounded, 585 of them seriously enough to be hospitalized.
The U.S. death toll was one less than last week but still above the average of 170 Americans killed each week in 1967. The wounded total was up considerably from the 437 of the previous week.
Casualty figures on both sides reflected heavy fighting since the new year and included battles ranging from Viet Cong encounters with South Vietnamese rangers in the Mekong Delta to a bitter struggle between North Vietnam's 2nd army division and American soldiers in the Que Son valley, 360 miles northeast of Saigon.
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