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Friday, February 15, 1980
University Daily Kansan
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delinquent accounts and asks them to contact the hospital.
The second letter threatens to turn the account over to the hospital's collection attorneys. The final letter informs their other accounts will be turned over to collection attorneys.
BEN NELL, a collection attorney or the Med Center, said he sent two letters 10 days apart requesting payment on delinquent loans.
"There are very, very few accounts that say they don't owe the money," he said. "They know they owe it but they either don't have the money or don't want to pay."
If a patient does not pay the bill, Neil infers the Med Center diagnosis with which he is most familiar. The decisions to sue, he said, are based on the amount of the accounts and on consultation fees.
About 20 percent of the patients are sued, Neill said. Other than a handful of $15,000 to $20,000 accounts, most accounts are less than $400 and uncollectible.
"A higher percentage of the accounts are owned by individuals, a state agency the Med Center doesn't have the option to refuse anyone. Consequently, more lower-income people go to the Med Center."
McReynolds said the attitude of the public and of some doctors was that, because the Med Center was a public hospital, people who have money should receive free treatment.
"The problem really isn't with collections, it's with admitting," he said. "They will admit anybody here."
JORDAN HAINES, chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents, said there was no solution to the problem in public hospitals.
"These are indigent people, in most instances elderly and in most instances minority, that cannot be denied care at a public hospital," he said.
The debt is included in the Med Center's budget the same way that a bank assumes not all its homes out will be repaid, he said. The agency will take off of the debt, but not enthusiastically.
Bv DON MUNDAY
Staff Reporter
House OKs land purchase limits
A bill limiting federal acquisition of Kansasland was passed 110-13 yesterday by the Kansas House of Representatives, as a ballot emerged from a Senate committee.
The bill was viewed by many as an attempt to block the creation of a Tallgrass Prairie National Reserve, which has been named N.R. US. Congress for Rep. Larry Winn, R.K.
As passed by the Kansas House, the bill would approve the sale of more than 80 acres of land to the federal government, except when the landowner willingly offered the property.
Kron乳takea, regional representative of the National Audubon Society in Manhattan, has been asked to present the final form of the bill was acceptable because it protected the landowner without affecting the watershed.
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"As it was originally written, if you were in one of the areas of the proposed reserve and you got an offer for your land, and you bought it from a government official that price to the federal government," Crowell said. "They would be able to say, 'We'll buy it for that price,' or, 'We don't want it for that price.' The government perceptually have this right of refusal."
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The other change was intended to nullify a provision in Winn's bill that would give the U.S. Department of the Interior the right of entry and on the open market, Crowell said.
IT WAS amended so that the government "cannot exercise the right of first refusal," Crowell said.
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BUT Rep. Rex Crowell, R-Longton, introduced the bill in the House, disagreed on its relation to the proposed park or reserve.
"It won't stop those who want to contend with the federal government for the right of first refusal," Crowell said. "What we're saying is that government say you don't have a choice.
seller and a willing buyer, without the interference from the Kansas Legislature," Klatake said.
"My intention was to oppose the Prairie National Park, although I also wanted to give Kansas veto power over the federal acquisition of state land." Crowell said.
In building support for the bill, Crowell said, he informed cosponsors that it would be important to preserve by blocking federal purchases of Kansas land without prior legislative approval.
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"Certainly, the greatest support for the bill came from anti-Prairie National Park sentiment," Crowell said.
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The removal of the right of first refusal was opposed by the Audubon Society, Klataske said.
THE FIRST change was made to allow landowners to willingly sell land to the federal government without first getting legislative approval. In the original version, such approval would have been required or not the landlord was selling willows.
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A SIMILAR bill will now be debated on the floor of the Kansas Senate.
"We thought that was a positive approach, a good alternative to condemnation," he said. "We would have a more assertive government not impede that proposal."
Winn's bill has been bogged down by the House Interior Subcommittee on National Parks, according to Ann Lamendola, a legislative assistant to Winn.
The other Tallgrass bills proposed by Winn have never risen beyond the committee stage, she said. The current bill includes immediate signs of being treated differently.
"None of the others even got a hearing." Lamentada now. "Truthfully, we just don't know what will happen this year. It will all depend on the priorities of the committee heads!"
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THE ACTIONS of the Kansas Legislature regarding the proposed reserve will probably not affect the fate of Winn's bill in Congress, she said.
"Mr. Wim feems that whatever the state does is up to the state representatives and senators and that it's not under his jurisdiction to interfeere," she said.
Crowell admitted that the House bill stood a good chance of never having to prevent a Tallgrass preserve, but he said the state was still correct in acting when it did.
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Psalms 2:1 and Acts 4:25
In the second Psalm of the Bible God asks the above question, and then answers it. He tells who the heathen are, why they rage, and his reaction and consequences of their actions. Finally he asks what he must do to surrender to His King and be blessed, and not perish.
Usually we think of the heathen as savages or uncleterious people, but here God names them as kings, rulers, people of government. His King, Law and Commandments. Such a person is a heathen in the sense that he ahaes it is a heathen who does not believe in the God of the earth and Book and the Lord our guide for our schools. Psalms 22:18 uss "GOD IS THE GOVERNOR AMONG THE NATIONS" tells us that ALL OF THEM THEN WOU STIETT IN TINHUE CHILDREN (The God) ALK OF THEM WHEN TH
Deut. 7; 12.7 and 12.9. Our lorethats put God's name, "the God of the Bible," on our coins. "He our God." We are still willing to have God's name on our money, but it appears we have to go to 'far away places' to find heathen We are in great need of home missonaries. Every true Christian is a missionary. "THE HARVEST TRUST IS PLENTEUSE, BUT THE HARVEST SHOULD BE THE LORD OF THE HARVEST, THAT HE WILL BEND FORTH LABORERS INTO HIS HARVEST." Matthew 9:37-38.
**WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?** Why is what is the cause? It is to get all of the Government of God, His King, His Warrior out of the earth. Why must we rest away the cords" of restraint the Almighen has thrown across our palms to hold us back from daring ourselves,
WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE RAGE OF THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE GOD OF THE LAUGH. THE LORD SHALL HAVE THEM IN DERSION: THE LORD SHALL HAVE THEM IN DERSION: AND VEXTHEM IN HIS SORE DISCREASEMENT: PHA 2:4.5. In our day and generation have they in their contempt upon many a king, prince, and ruler? In these visitations has not the wine-cup of the Almighty's own, had drink
"THERE IS NO PEACE HAIR MY GOD TO THE WEST," she wrote. "If we fail to effort any, to cut out our personal weakness and indifference, or to rise up and lay the lawlessness all about and around us, then we will be AWATERS AND NIGHTEOUSNESS AS A MIGHTY STRAW. In plain everyday language God is a saying; I am a song of your songs and music, take it away! You are a river and a stream that blues the earth and the land like mighty rivers and streams that bles the earth and the land like mighty Kingdom might come and His will be done on earth as I went."
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