Friday, September 28, 1979
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Health officials get political advice
Staff Reporter
By TONI WOOD
Hospital administrator should learn how the political game in Washington is played by the administration. In decisions, Ralph Huitt, former administrative assistant to Lyndon Johnson, died on Saturday.
Hutt and four Congressional aides were in Lawrence yesterday and today to help Kansas doctors and hospital administrators how bills are passed in Congress.
About 60 doctors, nurses and administrators attended the seminar, which was called "Legislative and Policy Making Processes in Health."
Hutt said, "The special world of health policy is more emotion-laden than any other social policy-making that I know of.
"Everybody in the world wants to live forever."
He said the most effective way to influence policy-making was to form "iron
triangles." A triangle comprises an interest group, a bureaucratic organization, and a chairman or member of a subcommittee, all with a related interest.
"INTEREST GROUPS can control policy," he said, "and can shut out the world and keep everything as neat and tidy as they please.
"I'm not viewing the system with alarm. I'm just tellling you how these thines work."
Hutt said health officials should be involved in the entire process of legislation, including the actual writing of regulations.
“One of the areas in which every group that is concerned about policy,has got to be involved in the writing of regulations,” he said.
"Some associations in Washington will soon have more people helping write legislation than they have lobbying in Congress.
MOST PEOPLE at the seminar came to learn how to make their voices heard in Washington, according to Barbara Schoof.
who handles public relations for the Kansas Hospital Association.
However, some of the hospital administrators were concerned about specific legislation.
James Scott, also with KHA, said "swinged" legislation was a major concern to many of the health officials. A swing-bed hospital to allow hospitals to treat nursing home patients.
Some small hospitals have beds that are not being used, he said. With a swing-bed policy, the bed could be used for a nursing patient or for treating a regular patient.
Scott said such legislation would be especially good for rural communities where nursing home facilities were often inadequate.
Swing-bed legislation is being considered in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, he said.
step of the policy-making process to the administrators. The aides represented Sen. Robert Dell. Sen. Nancy Kassabeh, Rep. John Benn. Sen. Kebbel苏贝, All Republicans from Kapsa.
Sheila Burke, an aide to Dole, said Americans would spend about $200 billion on health care next year.
CONGRESSIONAL aides explained each
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"Somebody will decide where those dollars are going to go. You need to influence those people and you need to influence them very early.
"Find some other nursing home or hospital in another state and build a coalition," she said. "Pick a priority and work on it."
BURE KASE THAT contacting the state Congressional delegation was not enough. To get better results, coalitions should be formed with other states, she said.
Dan Haas, an aide to Whittaker, said each member of the state Congressional delegation should be contacted about issues.
declared financial exigency, because KU is the only Regents school with its own policy.
Exigency . . .
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"What happens when the other institutions reach financial exigency under the current regulations, or when the other five Regents institutions are going to be very happy when KU says it has its own rules?"
"Are other universities going to release tenured faculty while we do not?"
GOLD SAID it was important to determine whether the University could keep its definition of financial exigency.
"You can trust individual administrators, but we don't know which people are going to be in these positions when we reach a crisis," he said.
Arnko Knapper, a member of the ad bo committee on financial exigency, said he was not worried about the Regents definition.
*By law, the Chancellor is responsible
The Regents have approved our document
This is as good as Archie R. Dykes' word," he said.
Evelyn Swartz, professor of curriculum and instruction and a member of SenEx, said, "I regard this as a contract between the two institutions. I think contract is the key word here."
"Should a situation arise where there was a conflict between this document and the Regents definition, I think a ruling would be to be made."
Swartz said that many persons did not understand the true significance of tenure.
"This is the main strength of tenure. People can't be fired for political reasons."
"It's not just an attempt to protect jobs. It protects us so that we can teach. We can also research what might be controversial," Swartz said.
In other business today, SenX will begin reviewing nominations for a "blue ribbon" award in the final weeks of the congress, recommendations for changes in the Regents policy concerning political ban.
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