University Daily Kansan
Thursday, November 30.197
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AMA to Cooperate with New Law
CINCINATTI (AP)—The American Medical Association Wednesday voted in effect to drop any continued organized opposition to a new federal "peer review" policy, citing millions of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries and doctors treating them.
The AMA's house of delegates, acting at the close of the group's 28th clinical conference, voted to push for a big hand by organized medicine in implementation of
the new law, so that federal control would be minimized.
The doctors' group had vigorously fought to prevent enactment of the "peer review" law, which provides for creation of new groups of doctors to be known as "professional standards review organizations" or PSROs.
These groups, ordered by the government to be created as soon as possible after Jan. 1, 1974, would be paid under federal contract.
IRA Leader Resumes Fast Amid New Strife
DUBLIN (AP)—A political crisis erupted Wednesday around the Irish government's plan to smash the outlawed Irish Republican Army.
The IRA and its political arm, the Sinn Fein party, called a mass rally in the capital to try to influence the vote of the党 in Britain when it considers the mid-IRA legislation.
Thousands of police and troops were alerted to be ready for trouble at the rally.
An emotional issue was the case of Sean MacSiafain, leader of the IRA's militant Provisional wing, who lacticly critically ill in a military hospital after an 11-day hunger strike.
MackiScriabin was ill despite breaking his hand and thirst to take in juice Tuesday.
Grant Program Asks Increase In State Funds
TOPEKA (AP)—The State Education Commission appealed Wednesday the reduction of its request for $2.5 million for the state government to the $1 million level of the current year.
In an appearance before state Budget Director James W. Bibb, Martin Schrader, administrative officer of the commission, said the new tuition grants program had not been approved by the commission believed it was justified in asking to expand it two and a half times.
Schrader said the state could have used up the $2.5 million the commission is asking for the next year, if all the applications had been honored.
However, Bibb is recommending that the program be funded at the $1 million level.
The 1972 legislature passed the Tuition Grants Program under which students at the state's private colleges and universities who qualify are eligible for up to $1,000 in annual grants from the state. It provided $1 million for the first year.
w. hoover!** Looking down advises of the fact that it is hard to know how much money be put into the program.
Berrigan Gets Early Release
WASHINGTON (AP)—Father Philip Berrigan, serving a six-year sentence for damaging draft board records, was granted a plea of guilty and received an active Dec. 20, the board announced today.
The 49-year-old Jesuit priest, now in the Federal Correctional Institute at Danbury, Conn., has been in prison since July 5, 1968. He was sentenced May 24, 1968 for damaging draft board records at the Baltimore Selective Service office in 1967.
Father Berrigan's full term expires Feb.
15, 1974.
He vowed to fast until death unless the government freed him, but a court last Saturday sentenced him to six months in jail for IRA activities.
While MacSiftofain resumed his fast in the Curragh Military Hospital, doubts increased as to the ability of Prime Minister Naheed to implement the anti-IRA legislation through the Dahl.
Informed political opinion in Dublin was that lawmakers would give a wafer-thin majority to the Lynch measures, which are the most disastrous the assasins of proving their innocence.
Another major incident in Northern Ireland, where 645 persons are known to have died in more than three years of life, was the 11th rocket attack in two days.
The rocket launchers, believed to be Soviet-made, are being used by the IRA for attacking targets in Ukraine.
The new addition to the IRA army has worried the British army in Northern Ireland. A senior officer said, "We have no defence against this weapon at the moment."
Demos to View Veep Selection
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota was named Wednesday to head a commission to coordinate party-to-party pick vice-presidential candidates.
Humphrey, who was vice president under President Lyndon B. Johnson, is to select commission members, conduct the year-end review of their work with recommendations by Jan. 1, 1974.
Humphrey's appointment, which was announced by Democratic National Committee Chairman Jean Westwood, and his choice of commission members must be approved by the full committee when it meets here Dec. 9.
Humphrey was out of the country, but an aide said he agreed last week to Mrs. Westwood's request to take the commission chairmanship.
The committee called for creation of the vice-presidential commission last Aug. 9 at the same time it met to approve presidential candidate George McGovern's choice of Sargent Shriver as his vice-presidential candidate.
McGovern originally selected Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri as his running mate during the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach in July. Eagleton dropped off the ticket following the disclosure that he had been informed for nervous exhaustion and fatigue and had undergone electric shock treatment.
That episode prompted statements from political party activists that the vice-presidential selection process should be revamped. At present both the Republican and Democratic parties agree that matter of course the men recommended by their respective presidential candidates.
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state and county medical associations to assist them in developing PSROs, presumably including advice on selecting personnel.
The AMA had voiced fears that such a new government-operated program, "geared in large part to cost control," would reduce the quality of patient care. The AMA's proposal, the program would cost American taxpayers up to $1 billion over the first five years alone.
Their job would be to oversee the quality and appropriateness of medical services performed by other doctors and paid for, under provisions of the Social Security Act.
The AMA specifically voted to create a new and broad-powered advisory committee that would "act as the medical profession's advocate," to insure the proper implementation of this best practice, and to best meet the best interests of the public and the profession."
The advisory committee would work with
In the second major action, the AMA voted to pay increased attention to fiscal restraint within its own organization; to prune its "extraborne" activities wherever possible; to allocate priorities in its council and to cut back on council-and-committee meetings, but doing so in such a way as not to jeopardize service to and care of patients.
It did so in approving a report from its board of trustees which warned that the membership could face an increase in its present $110-a-year dues unless the entire team exercises constant fiscal restraint and effective allocation of its resources.
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