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Show -July 2, 1980 Compiled by Orem Chamber of Commerce Orem Community Calendar Oiem-Geneva Times" fn Setoff sf BY RiCK KINNERSLEY President Overregulated Health Care Costs U.S. Representative James M. Collins came up with an interesting way to cut hospital costs in the country the other day. Collins said, "...every time the Federal bureaucracy has interfered in the hospital industry the only result has been increased health care costs. The costs of compliance with current legislation are a large drain on a hospital's budget." To emphasize his point Collins asked St. Luke's Hospital in Houston to give him a report on the cost of complying with Federal regulations which are passed on to patients in the form of higher service charges and room rates. From January 31, 1979 to January 31. 1980 the hospital spent $113,000 to comply with the blizzard of Federal forms and paperwork. In addition to the total dollar outlay there was the expense of legal costs and audits to be sure the work was handled properly, plus employee benefits for those hired strictly to comply with the regulation. With the additional workers to meet the Federal regulations came more Federal controls. $25,800, for example, just to meet equal employment opportunity requirements and $12,500 to maintain the employment plan for minority hiring. This is just for the management and clerical staff to fill out Federal forms and surveys. After studying the problem Rep. Collins summed up his findings this way. "Congress can effectively cut medical care expenses by reducing paperwork and overregulation. Out country has more government than it wants, more regulations than we need, and more taxes than we can afford in the form of hidden expenses for hospital health care." A recent survey of the 17 largest hospitals in Utah, which account for 85 percent of the hospital business, concluded that between $20 and $25 is added to the cost of every hospital patient's bill, per day, just to meet Federal directives. Rep. Robert Lagomarsino put it in perspective when he said, "American hospitals are the finest in the world, and some credit must go to the various government agencies that have been given a 'watchdog' role over their procedures. But a few alert watchdogs not a howling, overpaid pack of them ought to be enough." By limiting the bureaucracy and paperwork directed at hospitals Congress could have a dramatic impact on the cost of health care and it could be done without a single new regulation or form. UTAH HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION rS Anthon Manuscript Lectures Scheduled Two lectares dealing with the recently discovered Anthon manuscript, which Mormon Mor-mon prophet Joseph Smith is said to have copied from ancient engraved records, are scheudledatBYUJuly8. . Some scholars believe the manuscript, found between the glued pages of an old Smith family Bible, is the document carried to New York City by Joseph Smith's associate Martin Harris so scholars of the day could determine whether the copied characters were indeed related to ancient Egyptian, Egyp-tian, as the Book of Mormon Mor-mon text indicated. Dr. Keith Perkins, a member of the committee commit-tee which arranges special lectures for BYU Religious Instruction, said the two lectures will offer insights on the manuscript itself and on current comment about it. The public is invited to the program, and there is no charge. Danel W. Bachman, an instructor at the LDS Institute at Utah State Universitv. will discuss "Thesr traders Were Diligeiu.., Copied': A Look at the Newly Discovered Joseph Smith (Anthon) Manuscript." His lecture is scheduled at 7:30 p.m. in 205 Clark Law Building. Bachman, who was the first to examine the manuscript when it was discovered, will compare this document to others which purportedly contain con-tain the characters copied by Joseph Smith. He will illustrate his lecture lec-ture with slides. After Bachman speaks, Dr. C. Wilfred Griggs, an assistant professor of ancient scripture at BYU, will offer of-fer a lecture entitled "New Characters Enter into the Anthon Transcript." Tran-script." He will deal with infonnation-and misin-formation-that has been circulated about the manuscript, as well as with the ancient nature of the document. The observations of both Bachman and Griggs "will be very, very preliminary. I think people need to unu--stand that it takes years to analyze this kind of material," Perkins commented. It was thought for many years that the original manuscript shown to Preiser Anthon An-thon had been lost, although the Reorganized O ,:rch of Jc.-.us Christ of letter n,y Saints has a document containing some of the characters reportedly taken from the gold plates, and a few scholars have said it is the original Anthon manuscript. There is also another "Anthon" document, published in the 1840's, which contains a slightly different set of characters. But, Perkins said, the manuscript discovered recently in the old Smith Bible more closely fits the description of the original manuscript given by Professor Anthon, An-thon, particularly in one significant detail (called a hypercephalus) that is absent from the earlier- New Officers Elected By 'Utah Foundation Utah Foundation, the nonprofit research organization or-ganization announced today to-day the election of new officers. Richard A. Van Winkle, President of the Lockhart Co. - Salt Lake City and former Chairman Chair-man of the Utah State Road Commission and President of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce will succeed Roy W. Simmons, Sim-mons, President of Zions First National Bank -Salt Lake City, as President Presi-dent of Utah Foundation. Richard M. Mercer, President Pre-sident of Ogden First Federal Savings - Ogden was selected First Vice President to succeed Douglas J. Fife, President Presi-dent of Fife Rock Products Pro-ducts - Brigham City. Charles L. Bates, Jr., President of Valtek, Inc. -Springville succeeds Grant S. Thorn of Springville Spring-ville as Second Vice President. Pre-sident. Don M. Wheeler, President of Wheeler Machinery Company -Salt Lake City will continue con-tinue as Treasurer of the organization. The new electees will assume office immediately, immed-iately, according to Henry R. Pearson, executive director of Utah Foundation. Founda-tion. Mr. Pearson expressed ex-pressed high commendation commen-dation for the years of dedicated service by the outgoing officers. The officers are elected annually by the Board of Trustees of Utah Foundation which consists con-sists of 35 members, seven of whom are elected each year for 5-year terms by the general membership. New to the Board of Trustees Trus-tees are: James B. Lee, Attorney - Salt Lake City; and W. Adrian Wright, President, W. Adrian Wright Inc., Salt Lake City. known documents. It contains con-tains all the written characters found on both of the other documents, and it also contains a statement and a signature of Joseph Smith which LDS Church experts have said they believe are genuine. 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