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Show ---mmmmmmmmmWmWmmmWmWmmmmmmmmmmWmWmWmWmmmmmmMmMmnmmmmm-- Page Twelve The Springvilte Herald May 18, 1972 MEMBER OF THE Published Weekly by ART CITY PUBLISHING COMPANY at 161 South Main, Sprlngvllle, Utah MW3 PUBLISHER, MARTIN CONOVER Second class postage paid at Springvllle, Utah 84663 Subscription in dvnc, per ymr, $5.50 per copy, 15c EDITORIAL THIS ONE HAS MORE GOVERNMENT COMBINATION HEALTH PLAN IS BETTER Coming up in Congress are new ideas for expanding health care almost 80 separate bills. The most extreme plan would establish a single massive Federal program costing an estimated $70 billion annually. Another of the major proposals would rely primarily on private insurance insur-ance carriers and cost approximately $8 billion a year. ' The first would require a tremendous additional bureaucracy to handle millions of claims, plus a large "police department" to monitor hospital, physician, and laboratory fees and charges. The other is a three-step proposal which would : 1 ) mandate man-date a minimum standard of health insurance for each employer to provide for his employees and their dependents; depend-ents; 2) create a pool which would pay1 the health insurance insur-ance premiums for those who could not afford such payments; pay-ments; and 3) continue medicare for the aged, blind, and the disabled. i At the other extreme the least expensive plan is one which would cover catastrophic illnesses only. While this plan is easier on the pocketbook, it does not treat the root causes of skyrocketing health-care costs, but prescribes only for one of the factors. The best buy is not always the cheapest nor the most expensive. It makes good sense to weld the benefits of existing private medical care and private health insurance plans with a government program to assure that everyone will be eligible for adequate medical treatment. Under a total government take-over, the cure for runaway health expenses ex-penses might be worse than the admitted ills of rising costs and insufficient facilities which now exist. From the superintendent's desk . Last week I discussed the Fall Utah Highway Patrol school bus inspection. Since writing that article we have received the Spring Inspection notice. I promised that I would relate to the patrons of the District the results of our Spring inspection. The Fall inspection showed 25 number of defects. The Spring inspection shows a reduced number of defects at 13. The report indicates that 41 districts or institutions were inspected. The inspection included 849 buses. t The total number of defects on the 849 buses was 341, or 4-10 of a defect per bus. Nebo had 43 buses inspected with 13 defects of 3-10 of a defect per bus. We had one defect on a tire, two on windshields, two on windows, one on tail lights, two on stop lights, three on identification signs, two on exhaust systems. We are proud of the job that our bus maintenance main-tenance people are doing and their attempt to reduce our semi-annual inspection to zero defects. We also need to realize that each district may have a different inspector and that different people emphasize different things on an inspection. Some may be more particular on the size of a pit in a window, condition of a tire, etc., but even realizing this discrepancy may not give us an accurate picture of how Nebo compares with other organizations in the State. We still feel that we should get bur fleet of buses as near perfect as possible.. ' - One of the areas that also is indicated on the semi-annual inspection has to do with the number of buses overloaded and the total number of passengers in excess of capacity. Even ttaeufh this information is given m the report, there is no law that specifies over loading or ''iScts people from standing ridmf. -The report does in-'V-e -fluit nineteen buses in Nebo are hauling more than their capacity and there are 173 passengers in excess of the capacity. We think this is a fairly serious condition and will be adding new routes next year to help alleviate the problem. We should also explain that part, but not all, of the overload problem is created by the practice we have of picking up students if they live on a given bus route even though they live within the limits established by the State for walking distance. Nebo District is required to transport students or' furnish transportation tran-sportation in lieu of bus service if an elementary child lives beyond one and one-half miles from the school and a secondary student two miles from the school. We do haul many students who live closer than one and-half and two miles to the school. We could eliminate much of the so called over-crowding if we refused to haul these students, however, we feel that if they live on a bus route and are willing to stand the last mile and one half or so to school that we should allow them to ride, particularly if they stand one person to each row of seats and they hold onto the seat backs for standing support and they do not interfere with the driver in handling the bus. Far more dangerous than standing are the students on a bus who move up and down the aisle and from seat to seat during the time a bus is in motion. We would encourage all parents with bus students to have them sit in their seats and stay in their seats while the bus is moving and until it has stopped. Many of our bus problems could be solved by good common sense and courteous cour-teous behavior. Baby's cute sayings sound awfully silly, if she's over 21 and they're read back to you by a lawyer. 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