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Monday, February 26,1979
University Daily Kansan
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Health bill stranded in committee
Staff Reporter
Bv PATRICIA MANSON
Kansas may not establish a commission to regulate hospital rates despite Gov. John Hickenloose's efforts.
Carlin told the second annual Mid- America conference on health care costs Friday that Kansas needed a commission to oversee hospital costs.
"The real reason we have to make progress in cost containment is that Washington may decide to solve the problems itself," Carlin told about 300 people in the Kansas Union hallroom. "We want to take the initiative for a program on our own."
Later that afternoon, however, the Kansas Senate vote against a motion to reconsider a bill that would establish a commission to oversee hospital costs.
The Senate had defeated the bill Thursday and on Friday voted 17-16 against a motion to reconsider. The bill remains in the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee.
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Under the bill, the commission would approve the budgets of Kansas hospitals and also limit the rates they could charge. Four-tenths of a percent of the gross receipts of each hospital would be used to pay for the commission.
State Sen. Larry Rogers, D-Wamgoo, who made the motion to reconsider, said this weekend that he was having second thoughts about the need for a commission.
THE BILL WOULD not affect rates at Watkins Memorial Hospital because most of the services offered at Watkins are part of a hospital in Franklin, Wollomann, director of the hospital.
Rogers said the cost of preparing budgets for the commission might be greater than the reduction in hospital rates and small hospitals would be affected the most.
"SMALL HOSPITALS to up their eyes already in paperwork for HEW and other
agencies," he said. "I'd hate to see a triple-headed, bureaucratic monster come out of this. I don't want to drive smaller hospitals out of business."
Rogers said small hospitals had trouble keeping down costs because of the cost of equipment and supplies in hospitals usually serve fewer patients than large hospitals, he said, they have to pay
Rogers said he might amend the bill so that the commission would take into account the risk of damage.
FRANK LOWMAN, chairman of the Kansas Health Care Cost Commission, said that although hospitals should be regulated, he did not support a state regulatory commission, but favored an outside, independent group to review hospital rates.
State Sen. Jan Meyers, R-Overland Park, a member of the Public Health and Welfare Committee, said she opposed establishing a bill of mandatory regulatory commission.
She said she supported voluntary efforts by hospitals to reduce rate increases. She said about 80 hospitals in Kansas had their rates by only 1 percent last year.
HOWEVER, State Sen. Arnold Berman, D-Lawrence, the sponsor of the regulatory commission bill, said voluntary efforts by hospitals would not work.
Hospitals are "quasi-utilities," he said, and should be regulated as other utilities.
"I am not a believer in enlightened voluntarism," Berman said. "I challenge any member of this audience to give an answer to the question, 'What program that deals with a similar social issue?'
"We spend more money in Kansas on health care than on utilities," Berman said. "What would be the reaction of people in Kansas if the legislature freed the utility prices? It would increase their price." I guarantee that more than just farmers would be marching in Topeka.
Speakers differ on way to cut medical costs
By LAURIE WOLKEY
Staff Reporter
Proponents of federal regulations to cut the spiraling costs of health care in Kansas met their match at the second annual health cost conference at the University of Kansas.
"Over the long haul we have a better solution to curbing costs than by creating another (federal bureaucracy," Thomas Nesbitt, president of the American Medical Association, said Friday in his keynote speech at the conference.
Americans spent an estimated $133 billion on medical care last year. The cost of that medical care increased at a rate of 5 to 10 percent over the overall inflation rate of 10 percent last year.
Nessitt said that in the past two years, the AMA has been trying to reduce health care cost increases to the overall rate of inflation. He credited the AMA's voluntary efforts with cutting the price increase by 3 percent in 1978.
NESBIT CRITICIZED President Carter's proposed 9.9 percent cap on hospital income and government-sponsored health insurance as "totally arrogant."
During the conference luncheon, Gov. John Carlin addressed the need for a plan to help families cope with the pandemic.
"We are not able to understand why Carter doesn't acknowledge that we are doing the very thing he is trying to accomplish," Nesbitt said.
"Although I have much confidence in this country, I don't think the government could come up with a satisfactory program that would benefit all 50 states," he said.
He estirred that by the end of 1979, national health care costs will have grown to $180 billion, but said that federal regulation was not the answer to curbing costs.
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The governor advocated a Health Maintenance Organization, which would promote alternative health care delivery systems in Kansas.
From Washington, Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan,
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Sen. Dole agreed with Nestib's allegation that President Carter's proposed lid on hospital income was the wrong approach to cutting costs.
most cost-efficient while rewarding ones that are less efficient," he said.
"Any cap penalizes the hospitals that are
"I THINK WE can have a voluntary method to cut health care costs and it can be very effective if we keep the pressure on," he said.
Berman said that hospitals should be the first to cut costs.
But, Dole warned, "If we don't meet the goals we set, we will have more and more challenges."
Near the end of the conference, there was a short, unexpected debate between Nelson Tilden, executive vice president of the University and State Sen. Arnold Berman, D.Lawrence.
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"Hospitals are the single-most expensive and spiraling of all costs," he said.
BECAUSE of this, Berman said, he had proposed a bill to set up a Kaiser Hospital in the city.
However, Tilden, advocating voluntary efforts, said, "Our disagreement with you is how the solution should be arrived at. We do not favor a state-mandated approach."
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If the commission were established, Berman said, each hospital in Kansas would be required to file a proposed budget with the commission for the coming year. The bill to establish the commission was killed Thursday in the Senate.
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Libraries dean willing to reopen Nazi exhibit
Jim Ranz, dean of libraries, has expressed a willingness to reschedule an exhibit of Nazi memorabilia, provided he is supported an academy program."
Ranz made the remark Friday at a meeting of the executive committee of the American Association of University Professors.
Canceled hours before it was to open last April, the exhibit originally was prepared in conjunction with a history class. Inside Hitter's Germany.
The instructor of the course subsequently left the University of Kansas, but the class is offered again on this instructor course. It was not offered last fall.
Administrators said last spring that the exhibit's opening had been postponed because it had coincided with Adolf Hitler's birthday, Passover and the day the TV show "Holocaust," which depicted Nazi persecution of Jews.
Ranz told the AAPU committee that the Kenneth Spencer Research Library staff was "very eager" to reschedule the exhibit, but said there were problems.
He said the main problem was a lack of space.
Ranz said an exhibit would have to be canceled to make room for the Nazl exhibit.
He said he "wouldn't attempt to mess with the exhibits brought in from outside the University." He said he might continue "canceling one" "library inspired" exhibit.
He said it would be almost impossible to exactly reassemble the Nazi exhibit.
Ranz said one option to canceling an exhibit would be to put the Nazi exhibit somewhere else on campus, such as the Kansu Union.
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He said the reopening of the exhibit would receive extensive coverage by the media and that the library staff was "not too anxious to walk into that."
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