Show r 1 10B Standard-Examin- August 12 Thursday er Hospital 1982 Diunrsingi SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — A controversial Utah law requiring hosptials and nursing homes to go through a complicated review process before expanding or developing new services is scheduled to expire next year And the State Health Department is con home review lew to empire elf veer's end tent to let it die if another method of encouraging competition can be developed The law was developed in 1979 and will automatically expire in 1983 unless the Legislature passes a bill next January to extend it The Certificate of Need Statute was intended to reduce unnecessary expenditures and investments by hospitals that don’t often have the incentive to maintain competitive prices That incentive is lost somewhat because the medical costs are usually borne by a third-part- y insurance company or a Under the statute when a hospital wants it make an expenditure of more than $300000 the proposal is reviewed first by the Joint Project Review Committee which is appointed by the Health Department then by the Health System Agency’s governing board gov- ernment subsidy program not by the consumer himself — who is therefore ambivalent to the costs and not prone to shop around for the best buy says Michael Stapley deputy director of the Health Department Some businesses ignore deregulation advantages SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — The action is consistent with a Federal Communications Commission’s ruling last year which lifted dustries businesses don’t always the long-tim- e ban on the resale of take advantage of it for fear of interstate phone service by such businesses losing their competitive position A case in point surfaced recently The two actions are part of an when it was learned that several overall deregulation movement by hotel and motel owners have not the regulatory agencies that could taken advantage of the extra potentially increase the service charges they are now allowed to charge for the average call from a Utah hotel hotel impose on their customers and those that have are still losing between 50 cents and $2 money on phone service Regulations permit hotels to turn Utah Hotel and Motel Associaa profit on phone service resale tion executive vice president Ilene but few have applied for FCC perKamsler said hotels have traditionmission to declare such a profit ally lost money on phone service said Kamsler despite how high some guests think Since the PSC ruling most of the their phone bills are To ease the problem the Utah inkeepers have charged between 25 Public Service Commission last cents and a dollar for intrastate month lifted a tariff on intrastate calls Kamsler added But they phone service allowing places like have opted to keep the charge low hotels and hospitals to place a sur- thus still losing money on the sercharge on long distance calls made vice so as not to lose the commercial customer to a competitor by their guests While government regulators are attempting to deregulate many in- Tourister long-distan- ce fj Uranium labor force down 25 CHEYENNE Wyo (AP) — In months Wyoming’s uranium industry labor force just 24 dropped 65 percent and companies blame the cutbacks on the falling prices of uranium a state Labor and Statistics Department report says The report released Wednesday said a recent survey of uranium operations in Wyoming produced an estimate of a work force of 1880 in March 1982 down from a peak industry employment figure of 5431 in March 1980 All of the 25 uranium mining operations in the state participated in the survey the report said but it said 10 of those had suspended all operations because of unfavorable market conditions Industry officials cite prices of $43 a pound for yellowcake another name or uranium oxide that were common early in 1980 and the subsequent plunge to prices half that as the reasons for cutbacks WEEKDAYS SATURDAY 10 TO 7 9 TO 6 Spectrum' softside luggage Blue - camel mahogany some cases slightly blemished which will not impair wear IT'S BACK AGAIN!! 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