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OPIN SUNDAY! 10 e.m. e 1 p.m. Visa Card Assistant Publisher Ad Manager 7 Editor Staff Staff Staff 825-619- 825-947- Perspective on Medical Care Cost fact, increase medical costs b having to pay for the services of a whole new army of bureaucrats to handle the paperwork, plus the added costs of additional nonmcdi-ca- l support stuff that would tv needed by hospitals and dixlors. fThere is almost universal agreement that something must he done to curb the soaring costs of health care in the United States. Deciding which course of action will he most effective in terms of cost and quality of care will be the subject of national debate in the next few years. This report examines the problem and alternative solutions. Rather than making medical care delivery more efficient, the British system, for example, has resulted in rationing" healthcare. At present there are 600,000 Britons on lists waiting for their turn for some form of surgery. A case history of what happens to medical costs can be seen from Australia's experience with its national health insurance, called Vieulth care spending will approach $200 billion this year, consuming 7.4 per cent of our gross national product, a higher percentage than any other major industrialized country. Just how serious the problem is can be seen from looking at cost trends: Mcdibuhk. Following the introduction of Medtbunk in fiscal year 1974-7health care spending jumped from $828 million in U S. in one dollars to $2.62 billion year. Rath'er than simply paying out more and more for health care, either through thin) party insurance companies or by the government, whal is needed are effective measures within the pnvate sector to hold down thd costs. One way to accomplish this is in give both patients and the medical profession incentives. For patients this could mean paying at least some part of their medical bills directly, instead of relying on third party insurance plans which pay whatever is asked and thus remove Spending for health care has increased from $12 billion in 1950 to an estimated $200 billion this for inflation. year. Adjusting Americans are spending four times as much on health care today as in 1950. Federal taxes now pay close to , 30 per cent of the nation's health bill, corifpared with 12 per cent prior to the passage of Medicare and Medicaid. The cost of these two programs is estimated at $50 billion in fiscal year "79. Hospital costs are the' fastest growing segment of the health iti- dustry. Today, 40 per cent of America's health care dollars are paid to hospitals. Hospital charges are increasing 13.5 percent a year, or 3 per cent more than the Consumer Price Index. The average cost of a hospital stay is $ ,634, compared with $350 price competition. Government or private insurance companies might' enter into contracts with hospitals and physicians . ' With this background, the Carter administration recently announced that as the first phase of a national health insurance plan, it would propose legislation that would, by nearby hospitals duplicating facilities and equipment, much of it The cost of maintaining empty beds or equipment that is used infrequently is still passed on to other medical consumers. Finally, one of the more encouraging trends has been the establishment of health maintenance organizations (HMOs). Patient members y of HMOs for their total medical care in fixed, monthly payments. providing the physicians in the HMO an incentive to provide quality care at the kiwest cost. unde- 1983, provide catastrophic coverage for all Americans and increase Medicaid and Medicare benefits. The costs of this plan are projected at $IOto $IS billion the first year. Is this the most rational solution and would Americans be getting their money 's worth? The answer to both questions appears to be no. The mam problem is that any form of national health insurance would do nothing to hold down the costs of medical care. It would, in If you wear of you." . J ENERGY UPDATE Fueling Up Trucks and cars In the U.S. consume over 100 billion gallons of motor fuel a year, says Transportation Secretary Brock Adams. He expects this figure to increase despite the fleet average fuel economy standards set for 1965. Pinch Is Coming The last oil tanker from Iran arrived in the U.S. at the beginning of February, prompting President Carter to order federal agencies and departments to beef up their energysaving programs. If more savings can be achieved, datory conservation measures may be forestalled. ' Carter, has suggested further reducing thermostat setresearch. One tings, lighting, vehicle use and energy-hungr- y government source reports that more stringent measures, such as restriction of parking privileges for federal workers and perhaps a gasoline limit for the federal fleet of vehicles, are being drafted. Price Check At the beginning 1979 American drivers were paying an average of 67.8 cents a gallon for regular gasoline, up 4.7 cents from the price in December 1977, says the American Automobile Association. The AAA surveys are based on spot checks of 3,500 service stations. Future Shock? Hell and high water are the choices for many utilities today, notes a recent editorial in The New York Timet. They have become "trapped between their legal obligation to produce more (yet cleaner) power and the outrage of consumers over rapidly rising rates," a condition which may have disastrous results for energy users in the long run. The The Times observes that although some states have held utilities to tough standards while "accepting the need to pass on the cost of electricity" to customers, "elsewhere it has been found politically profitable simply to reject utilities rate requests." The short-ru- n appeal of this strategy ignores the role of investors, warns the editorial, since the extra coats must come out of the 10 per cent of utility revenues reserved for profits. "Over the next decade, the failure to give investors a fair return may have serious consequences for customer, it predicts. The directors of utilities will be unwilling (or i to provide medical care, paying a bonus when services are provided "under budget." They can also use their financial leverage to curb the costly and wasteful practice of in 1965. r-used. pre-pa- a white rose you are laying, "I am worthy Interesting notes on energy FIREPLACES DOG RUNS M. Glen Adams Mis. Bonnie Stable er 4 Denise Hammon Sunset News and Church correspondent x finish on lauan Owner-Publish- Peggy Jo Adams Trade Adams Forty-eig- $449 RIDGECREST BIRCH it Lauon on p'ywood J. Howard Stable Keith Duncan LaVora Wayment Forty-fou- DESERT SUNSET Vi k 4 X 8 MONOWALL 1 What we suspected all along finally has happened: the e Ralph Nader has called on Congress to order the scrapping of the 92 nuclear power plants now under construction, and the 70 commercial plants already in opera tion. Testifying before a subcommittee of the House Interior Committee on June S, Nader said the billions of dollars it would cost would be a cheap price to pay compared to alternative risks. The entire process, he said, should take place within the next two or three years. We have no intention of making light of the risks ved in nuclear power generation; they are real, and poten-tiall- y very serious. Yet, in the aftermath of Three Mile Island, something has to be said about the quality of life in these United States. e California business As Arthur Spitzer, the for whom the Arthur Spitzer leader and original thinker Inflation Chair of Energy and Management at Pepperdine University is On the subject of inflation, most named argues: It is easy for Ralph Nader to preach that of the businessmen responding felt inflation would continue to rise durhe would rather live by candlelight instead of nuclear energy. Since he makes a living with this kind of preaching and he ing 1979, with 46 per cent believing will rise significantly and 36 per knows it will never happen, he can easily preach this kind of it cent saying it will rise slightly. Fifnonsense. teen per cent said the inflation rate The American people, however, the 80 million workers will stay about the same, and only 3 who need cars, electricity, oil, gas, and coal for their liveliper cent forecast a decrease in the rate of inflation. their hoods, cannot enjoy the luxury of gambling with The executives were also asked futures. what they expected the unemployit is easy to imagine a scenario when people in this ment rate to be year from now. per cent said the unemcountry will not be able to get gasoline or we will have Fifty-on- e will be higher than it norate The results shutdowns of electricity, ployment says Spitzer. r is now. per cent said the of short "chaos. thing rate will be about unemployment and detailed account (For an extremely the same as now and S per cent of life in these United States without adequate electricity, we predicted the unemployment rate would suggest you get a copy of an excellent report by Milton would be lower a year from now. A fifth question asked the busiCopulos, "Closing The Nuclear Option: Scenarios For nessmen about the cost of meeting The last Societal Change, Heritage year by published government regulation at all levels Foundation.) (federal, state and local). Obviously, the risks and dangers inherent in nuclear per cent of the businessmen power are many: radiation leakage, transporting and storing said the cost of complying with such regulations is a major burden. Forty-siwater treatment for the cooling sysnuclear per cent said the cost is a fairly tems, and so forth. serious problem, while only 6 per took Yet this interesting but largely overlooked incident cent characterized government regplace during Senate hearings immediately after the Three ulations as not much of a problem. Mile Island accident: Dr. Alvin Weinberg of Oak Ridge. Tennessee, brought a into used for measuring radiation Geiger Counter Room 3302 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. He turned it on. And to the astonishment of most of those present, the instrument showed a reading of The minimum edult require250 "millirems, a much higher dose than the people in the ment of weter it about a vicinity of the Three Mile Island facility received. The reason quart of liquid per day. the granite used to construct the Dirksen is quite simple office building, thanks to Mother Nature, is radioactive, and always will be. Not dangerously so, but radioactive nevertheless. just the way sunlight is radioactive. Everything has its risks. Eating chicken can be dangerous, if you happen to choke on a chicken bone. Walking across the street presents a risk. Eating peanut butter, which contains (again, thanks to Mother Nature) a powerful, naturally occurring carcinogen, might be said to be risky. "There is risk in everything we do," says Spitzer, but we have to learn to live with and control risks, not run away from them. Says Spitzer: For 200 years we have had an Eagle as our National Emblem. Lets not change it to an Ostrich. If we the People, the Congress, the Government, the Scientists, and the Economists do not solve this problem, Hollywood will do it for us. It wont be a Western movie with bows and arrows, he suggests, "it will be a Tarzan movie. ..a jungle. in-v- ol PECKY CEDAR i 4 8 Ft 4 growth. The opinion survey was conducted March 29 among business executives allending the Spring Conference here of the National Association of Manufacturers. The 266 executives who responded to the survey questionnaire represented small, medium and large companies throughout the U.S. On an encouraging note. 47 per cent indicated their companies plan increased 1979 capital spending for new plant and equipment. Such investment in production capacity is generally considered a health) sign for the economy. Thirty-si- x per cent thought capital spending would be about the same as last year and 17 per cent forecast less capital spending then last year. Responding to another question, however, 54 per cent of the executives expected the growth rate of the economy to be slower in 1979 than last year. Thirty-fou- r per cent thought the economic growth rate would be about the same this year and 12 per cent said it would be better than in 1978. 2. All nows and photographs for tho Courlor must bo in tho nows offico bofore 6 AM. Monday. Pictures may bo includod without chargo either taken In our office or submitted by our readers. A surc of WASHINGTON Ley businessmen from across (he country indicates they beliesc inflation will continue to gel worse this year and that 1979 will see some slowdown of economic ifiUsrstuetiaN 359-261- 025-166- T7n unable) to sell new stock to finance additional construction FACTStfFANCtSC and consumers will face the prospect of power shortages. How many hours a day It's a Thought Comedy writer Bob Orben says, "If God had really wanted do you work for yourself? Fewer than two out of us to have enough oil, he never would have given us the three! Department of Energy." Free Parking part of his energy program, President Carter has called for the elimination of free or reduced rate parking for federal employees. Beginning in October of this year, government employees will pay half the prevailing parking rates in their areas; and by fall 1961, the full rate will prevail. It is estimated that the increased parking rates will bring ia$33 to $40 million nationally. In addition, 100,000 miles of auto travel As will be eliminated, 6,0900 gallons of gasoline will be saved, and mass transit usage will be increased. However, the more than 8,000 congressional parking places in Capitol Hill remain unaffected by the Presidents plan.' Editorial You work for. the one-thir- d govern-men- t of the year. The Tax Foundation reports that during an eight-hou- r , .working day, the average U.S. worker works r hours two and to pay r hours one and for the federal government, another hour for state and local governments. Taxes are the biggest item in the family budget, say the economics experts at the American Society of Chartered Life Underwriters. Taxes take a Ligger bite out of your wages than food' and beverages (one hour and four minutes) and housing and household operations (one hour and 28 minutes). In other words, the average American spends more than four months each year working to pay his share of the total $644.4 billion U.S. tax bill. From January 1 to May 6. the fruit of your labors gK to pay taxes. After May 6. its all yours. three-quarte- State opinion, at no charge Most people have at least as many opinions about current issues as editorial writers do. Sometimes, people become absolutely incensed with some of the editorial opinion they read in the paper. A recent editorial in this newspaper came out strongly against the death penalty, and people not only read it, but some of them phoned the office or came in and commented how violently they disagreed with that particular opinion. At that point they were Invited to write a guest editorial on the subject, agreed they would like to do so, and promptly let the matter die. Hard as it may be to believe, we in the newspaper business DO get tired of reading our own opinions. It is refreshing and enlightening to receive end print opposing points of view, either In the form of letters to the editor or guest editorials. Editorial writers at Stahls Publications are sorely tempted to declare a National Week. Let us know what you think! Well even help you write it. And aa long as it contains no libel and no obscenity, you can see your name and your opinions In print at no charge! taxea-approxim- ately three-quarte- i |