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Show Mom Ezra Taff Benson Speaks at Boston Patriotic Rally Jta (See Pages 4 and 5) 'AAAAAA icictckic'k'kicklckiK'kiciKickiritlricfcklKiKlckiticiriKiK it it it T&T -.- Independent ' &A ir' 35r f GSZT: v ! beehive Dedicated To The Constitution, Liberty, Morality, and Truth - irit1ritictckictckickick'k'k1ckitiKlciKltititiK Volume 1, No. 9 Salt Lake City, Utah 84105 A 250 July 23, 1970 lln)p)o)((o The resolution read as follows: The delegates also supported In order to check the exces- the Gateway Amendsive population threat, it rement, which was turned down by solved; the republicans at their state conTo promote education about vention the previous week. The Gateway Amendment family planning and the problems that are generated by unregulated would permit the Utah Constitution to be amended by whole artiAt the Democrat Party Con- population growth. cles rather than by specific secvention held in the Salt Palace tions. The implications of this are To support legislation permitSaturday, July 18th, a resolution which, in effect, called for legalting birth control, abortion or not clear to many people. (Note: ized abortion was adopted. sterilization, the effect of which The Utah independent will have Some observers were surprized would be to allow each family the future articles dealing with this that no protest over this resolu- option to limit the size of the subject) tion was heard. Continued on family unit. Page 2. Adopted so-call- ed Without Protest Governor CALVIN L. RAMPTON In a joint appearance before the Senate Finance Committee two of the nation's largest medical associations urged the replacement of Medicaid with a national health insurance program for all to be subsidized by the Federal Government. In an unprecedented move the American Medical Association (AMA) and the largely black Nation Medical Association (NMA), in their first joint appearance before a Congressional committee, presented their Medicredit national health insurance plan. Dr. Gerald D. Dorman, AMA president, explained the three parts of the program to the subcommittee. Our first program would meet the problems of the Title XIX Medicaid program, he said, under our plan, each low-inc- ome person or family would e receive a certificate for the of a qualified and comprehensive health insurance plan. The protection would be theirs without expense or contribution since the cost of the program would he borne entirely by the pur-clias- Federal Government. The second offers tax credits, on a sliding scale based on the taxability of a family, for the purchase of qualified health benefits coverage. For those with moderate or higher levels of income, the program would provide cash incentives, through income tax credits, to encourage them to protect themselves against major health care costs. The tliird part of our program calls for a structured peer review mechanism to ensure high quality of care and to prevent abuses of the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Dr. Dorman noted that the Senate Finance Committes staff had previously suggested that organized medicine regulate itself. We agree, and propose a program providing for professional review of matters bearing on reasonableness of charges for, need for, and the quality of sendees rendered by the provider of medical or other health services, he stated. At the AMA Convention the week following, the New York Times noted the weakening of the AMA to the push leftward as it editorialized as follows: The realizes this and is going to be American Medical Association, much more constructive. Dr. Michael DeBakey, Commitwhich for the past half decade lias often been regarded as one of tee Vice Chairman and president the nation's most conservative or- of Baylor College of Medicine, I believe the AMA will asganizations, is showing increasing said, evidence that it is moving from its sume a more progressive stance and I hope it will participate in far right political position.... On July 7th the late Walter the shaping of a program. Reuther's 100 member Committee for National Health Insurance (CNIII) now headed by Reuthers successor in the United Auto Workers, Leonard Woodcock, announced details of its own national health insurance program. After watching the AMA slip from its heretofore firm stand against socialized medicine some of the CNIII members voiced opinions that opposition from orparticularly ganized medicine American Medical Associa-tion- , may not be as great as anticipated. Frank Furstenberg, M. D., Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, said the AMA has a bill' to finance national health care and that the The CNIII proposed a cradle private health insurance. The financing would come from three sources: 40 from federal general tax revenues (Continued on page 7) Youngest Candidate Seeks Office the history of the State of Utah to ever seek election to that office. He is a recently returned missionary, having served in the Irish Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Saints. the concept is not an anathema to the AMA. lie told the press that the AMA probably shot most of its firepower in the Medicare fight and added that the AMA to the grave health insurance program which would absorb Medicare, mo6t other government health care programs, and most Mr. Blaine Elswood, 1018 Lorraine Avenue, has filed for the position on the State Board of Education from School District No. 3. Being only 21 years of age, he is therefore the youngest person in ' Latter-D- ay He is a graduate of Granite High School (Class of 66); and is presently a junior at the University of Utah, majoring in history. His accumulative grade point average there is B plus. He is a proud, happy, and dedi- cated member of the John Birch Society and has been such since he was 16 years of age. And he (Continued on page 8) |