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Show i -' ri:VnLl,l....,Mra jpQ Picture if 3 BY RICK KINNERSLEY 23 President pverregulated Health Care Costs 3. Representative James M. management and clerical staff to fill 8 came up with an interesting , out Federal forms and surveys, io cut hospital costs in the After studying the problem Rep. jy the other day. Collins said, Collins summed up his findings this jry time the Federal bureaucracy way. "Congress can effectively cut jterfered in the hospital industry medical care expenses by reducing "wily result has been increased paperwork and overregulation. Our Ji care costs. Tlje costs of country has more government than it j iance with current legislation wants, more regulations than we need, J( large drain on a hospital's and more taxes than we can afford in it." the form of hidden expenses for .4 emphasize his point Collins hospital health care." St. Luke's Hospital in Houston A recent survey of the 17 largest e him a report on the cost of hospitals in Utah, which account for I ying with Federal regulations 85 percent of the hospital business, J I are passed on to patients in the concluded that between $20 and $25 is ; of higher service charges and added to the cost of every hospital grates. patient's bill, per day, just to meet u;'.om January 31, 1979 to January Federal directives. '80 the hospital spent $113,000 Rep. Robert Lagomarsino put it in Wl:nply with the blizzard of Federal perspective when he said, "American )ANii and paperwork. In addition to hospitals are the finest in the world, Ki''tal dollar outlay there was the and some credit must go to the ; KAS'ise of legal costs and audits to be various government agencies that wai;the work was handled properly, have been given a 'watchdog' role over smployee benefits for those hired their procedures. But a few alert -ly to comply with the regulation, watchdogs not a howling, overpaid . the additional workers to meet pack of them ought to be enough." yAeral regulations came more By limiting the bureaucracy and T al controls. $25,800, for example, paperwork directed at hospitals to meet equal employment Congress could have a dramatic il Hi .Unity mluu'ements and $ 1 2,500 impact on the cost of health care and it Jkintain the employment plan for could be done without a single new "ity hiring. This is just for the regulation or form. J$X "I UTAH HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION FS J I l ,, H II. I Ml 1 ""MWWtMMMaMMjMaMt WMllMi,MllilirtWliiHVt1lllM m Mm J Business of the Week3 u I I i I Vernal Express ISII3S. TOO Mm 1 A52?7 Vernal Area Is Advertiser P 789-3511 frlj Classified Ad Deadline 11 A.M. Tues. If' , Complete Advertising Coverage 5? of ttie Uintah Basin Area P 0. BOX 1010 VERNAL. UT. 840781 S FIND THIS BUSINESS ON YOUR I WHITE & GREEN PHONE BOOK COVER, j f ...,.,.,..-., 111 1 ; .'i",1!"." . fSITTf1l7 frwj m. At uspa choice SN6 evi6M M OKI OUR MXtBNDH 0W JVO &W FOR LESS ftNMU)1ERS -..-y yl1 . l,ullir tr&?y3&wm ;tHiq TN N Nr 1 OUR WO WAM(F SftLAD -w- i ZZT I ripeouves A MACW' ' I 1 u I If 3 J WESTERN v C rfn?FQ k A K00L ftlp jM: r mcue fwrtty J I rrkA WSilW r NV &UnCI aJJ rru,rml V FRESH WHlTF 1 ' zi tdilet ( papsrS oui 4 our. resuiar hours ; CBWnr? Yh mPIRK-IT ! DURSAVJIMSS CJ'K PUfEot hQa roosevelt ! I 7 I ) IPAnU TVT KUUJtVtll EAST HIGHWAY 40 . j V Kh-J WrT STORE HOURS; A.M. 10 P.M. M0N SAT CLOSED SUNDAY j - ir - I . , V";' ... ' -Mfir . ' '1' JTl.'J ..J' ' "ii"! , , 1 1 u m-. .ji j , i , , , - |