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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, March 4, 1968
LBJ calls for health program
RAMEY AIR FORCE BASE P.R. — (UPI) President Johnson, taking on the nation's drug industry, today prescribed to Congress a $15.6 billion health program aimed at eventually providing medical care to everyone who needs it regardless of costs.
The program, outlined by Johnson in a special message to Congress, listed general goals which the President said "will require an unprecedented national commitment" that will take years to achieve.
The most dramatic plan in the President's program, at least in terms of the consumer, was a call for Congress to authorize the secretary of health, education and welfare to establish "reasonable cost" standards to govern federal reimbursement of drug costs under the Medicare, Medicaid and the maternal and child health programs.
The program contained something for almost everyone who would ever require medical attention. But there would be little tangible evidence of its effectiveness for several years.
Joseph Califano, special Presidential assistant, said the administration felt that the drug industry would reduce its overall prices rather than risk losing the market in federally sponsored medical programs.
In addition, the President asked Congress to authorize the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to publish a compedium of drugs that would show each drug by both its generic and brand name and complete description of the drugs for use by physicians and pharmacists.
A dramatic, but not necessarily major, proposal in the President's program was to provide birth control aid for three million women, most of them poor, in fiscal 1969. To do this, Johnson has asked Congress to increase appropriations from $25 million to $61 million. Johnson had announced this program in his budget message early last month.
Most of the President's program was long-range with the major
goal a reduction in medical costs to the individual.
-A $58 million increase in appropriations for the maternal and child health care program to see that every child is given medical care from the time of conception to his first year of life.
The major provisions of the President's program called for:
— $195 million program for the existing partnership for health program, an increase of $35 million over fiscal 1968.
—$100 million to carry on the regional medical program, an in-
A $1.4 billion program, an increase of $215 million over fiscal 1968, for child health services under Medicalaid and other federal health programs.
The KU Endowment Association has been given $8,500 from the estate of Stanley C. Houdek of Belleville for loans to graduates of Republic County high schools.
—A $290 million health manpower program to recruit and train medical professionals and para-medical personnel.
Houdek, who died May 30,
1965, was not an alumnus of KU.
KU endowment given $8,500
ure gases in earth's upper atmosphere, look into the northern lights sky displays over the north pole and listen for puzzling radio noises from the planet Jupiter.
Dragonfly space lab to study environment
OGO also will chart magnetic and electric forces in space, meas-
OGO 5 left earth at 8:06 a.m.
EST on the space agency's last
Atlas-Agena rocket.
Early reports indicated the 120-foot space machine performed perfectly. It headed first toward a low orbit around earth and then its final one, 92,000 miles high.
The 1,347-pound satellite carries more experiments than any other automated spacecraft. It is the fifth in a $224 million series of six.
The satellite, an Orbiting Geophysical Observer (OGO) resembling a giant dragonfly, was headed toward an egg-shaped orbit expected to reach one-third of the way to the moon.
Its job to examine the hazards and mysteries of earth's space environment at a time when radiation-producing flares on the sun are intensifying. Besides endangering moon-bound astronauts, solar radiation influences weather and radio communications.
- Creation of an incentive program to reduce the cost of medical care by offering hospitals a profit-incentive for reducing costs to their patients and by establishing average rates which would permit the hospitals to keep 50 per cent of the amount under the average rate.
CAPE KENNEDY —(UPI) The United States today launched a space lab carrying a record 25 experiments to report on the sun's increasing radiation threats and other cosmic wonders.
The shot followed the launch of a mysterious Russian spacecraft named Zond 4 by two days.
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Oil from Liberian tanker threatens gold coast
crease of nearly 100 per cent over the appropriation for fiscal 1968.
SAN JUAN, P.R. —(UPI)— Crude oil oozed from a broken Liberian tanker into San Juan Harbor today, threatening the beaches of the Puerto Rican capital's resort gold coast. U.S. officials planned to attack the slime with chemicals.
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oil split in two Sunday in pounding seas at the reef-ridged entrance to the harbor, a historic graveyard for ships. All 35 crewmen were rescued without injury.
Prevailing tides normally would take the slimy, black oil out to sea, rather than eastward along the coast, but the unusual turbulence of the seas Sunday and again today pushed some to shore.
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