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MRS. SARAH POLK ...Bake-Off Advisor Ms. Folk To Attend Pillsbury Contest ay Sidney Moore Jr. . Post Staff Writer Pillsbury "Bake-Off" Advi sor Sarah Polk of 2826 Botany * Street will depart for the Boston, Mass. contest site Sat urday, August 28. Mrs. Polk, a winner in the ' 1975 "Bake-Off", is an advisor this year. She will be accom panied on her trip by her . friend Mrs. Almeda Rippy. They will arrive in Boston in time for <a clambake party and tour of outstanding New England Aquarium at historic Central Wharf, according to the official "Bake-Off" sche dule. Other preliminary activities are scheduled for Sunday. Following an orientation brunch and church for those who choose to go, guests of the "Bake-Off" will tour the histo ric city. The tour ends at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, where a dinner party will De neia. Monday's activities start with breakfast followed im mediately by the actual con test, said the schedule. Win ners will be announced Tues day, August 31, on a nationally televised awards program. The program will be carried on WBTV in Charlotte at 11 a.m. Mrs. Polk has been chosen advisor for "an outstanding job promoting the Bake-Off in Charlotte-area stores, exten sion clubs, churches, news papers and as a guest on a local television talk show," said a Phillisbury spokesper son. Company officials also not ed that Mrs. Polk has been chosen as a teacher by a local daily newspaper for a course entitled, "Southern Cooking of the Carolines'." Myopia Or Nearsightnese? ay Dr. Kaieign w. Bynum ~ Optometrist Myopia, or as it is more commonly called nearsight- . Redness, is a visual result of 'man's trend in daily activity. The myopic individual is usu ally very efficient with close work and, due to blurred vision, very inefficient with distant tasks. This set of con ditions correlates very highly with man's increase in close» work tasks. To remove a general mis ception, the myope does NOT "have "weak" eyes. The myo pic eye is strong to a fault. Since distance seeing is depen dent on total relaxation of the focusing system, and since the myopic eye is over powered to allow for constant close work, that relaxation of the eye for good distance seeing is impos sible. The glasses are given in order to neutralize the eye's excess power. Nearsightedness is usually found in a binocular (both eyes) form. As with any other visual condition, it has differ ent classifications 'with the more prevalent being the pro gressive or malignant type. The term malignant myopia has no connection with cancer, but simply indicates a type of error that starts at age 7 or 8 and gets progressivley worse to age 25 or 28. This type usually has some hereditary influence_and is characterized by a lengthening of the eye. CdtrftetTbifis'fcivyYl HI the-KlrA of spectacle Jertses -Of contact, lenses'. The second classification is termed functional or school myopia. This type can begin at, any age and is not necessarily involved with hereditary influ ences. Thg^ftrtctiorial myope is a victim of his environment and has made an appropriate adjustment in his visual sys tem. With an increase in close work activity, the visual sys tem also increases in close work activity, the visual sys tem also increases in close work efficiency. If this ar rangement persists for a pe riod of time the system will become very efficient at near with total disregard for the far point or distant vision. This condition is highly responsive to treatment in its early stages with possible total elimination of the myopia. This treatment consists of temporary reading 1 lenses combined with office or home visual training. The ^uqr cess of this approach is direct ly related to how early the nearsightedness is detected. Myopia is no longer a fate which must be accepted with out protest. 1+ til. -nil MM ■ . Medicaid Program Is An Expensive Pill To Swallow RALEIGH--North Caro lina's present financial crisis regarding its Medicaid pro gram is nothing new. Since ita very "beginning on January 1, 1976, the state's attempt to provide quality health care for its low income citizens under the Medicaid program has been a financial nightmare. . Prior to the enactment of Medicaid, states, including North Carolina, had some type medical assistance program for the poor with federal matching funds being used. In most cases, these were very limited programs providing only minimum health services to public assistance recipi ents. Some of the states, in cluding North Carolina, also pro videdthese services for cer tain persons who were only "medically needy" and did not need a monthly public assistance c?"''-' In 1965, Congres apparent ly was deeply concerned abou*. the amount and quality οι health services being provided for the nation's poor. There fore, it adopted Title XIX of the Docial Security Act which is also known as the Medicait' program. States were given until January 1, 1970 to imple T ment the program those fail ing to do so by that date would lose all federal matching for medical assistance The 196» Session of the N.C. General Assembly adopted one of the most comprehen sive Medicaid programs in the country. It included all the optional, as well as. the mandatory services. It also provided these services to the "medically needy" which was optional, and public assis tance recipients. Payments for these services are made directly -to doctors, nursing homes, hospitals, dentists, drug stores and others who provide the services. The state was faced with its first financial crisis the first month of the program. Nurs Tng Tiomes across the state were dissatisfied with the method of payment even though they were to begin receiving possibly twice as much per patient as they had previously been receiving. They objected to an audit and to being paid for services after they were delivered as requir ed by the federal government. They threatened to evict all welfare recipients. The state advanced the nursing homes $1.3 million interest free until their first regular payments began to be paid is soon as the dust from tne nursing home crisis began to settle, another windstorm be gan to blow for the infant Medicaid program. Counties who were required by state law to match the state's non federal share of the program (at that time federal 73.96 percent, state 13.02 percent and counties 13.02 percent) began to find that they had not budgeted enough money for this comprehensive health car program. Several counties had insufficient funds to cover their share of the payments during the first six months. Payments to providers in those counties had to be held up until the counties finally were able to pay their share. If these problems did not create enough anxiety in trying to provide health services for the poor, the fact that several counties in adopting their 1970 71 budgets deliberately cut the amount requested for the Medicaid program added to the. strain. Counties during the tirs» icw years complained so much about the rising costs of the program.the General Assem bly reduced their share to only 15 percent of the non-federal share and the state began paying 85 percent. Currently, the federal government pays 68 03 percent, state 27.17 per cent and counties only. 4.8 percent Man^other financialj»rob Tern's have occurred during the relatively few years the pro gram has bee tup existence Very few it any ui . uie ■ legislators who adopted the program in 1969, could have visualized a total expenditure of $218.9 million for fiscal year 1975-76 or an estimated expen diture ot $240.7 million for the , current 1976-77 fiscal year Nationally, the program grew from a cost of less than $2 billion in 1966 to $14 billion in 1976. The limited medical assis tance program that the state was providing the year prior to the beginning of Medi caid cost only approximatedly $30 million. Estimated expen ditures for 1976-77 represent an 800 percent increase over that amount. aince the prograiti began, several cost-cutting measures have been adopted and some are still in existence. Pay ments for professional ser vices were reduced to 90 per cent of usual and customary. Co-payments were introduced where recipients are required to pay a small amount for some services and Medicaid pays the remainder Several limits were placed on services but on^ of these did not prove too wise. At on time, the program would pay to have all the teeth pulled, but would not pay for dentures to replace them. This limitation was soon rescinded North Carolina was one of the leaders in the area of 'j>eer review". The N C Peer Review Foundation under con tract reviews each hospital, nursing home and Intermedi ate Care Facility admission to determine if the amount of care and type of care is adequate and necessary for each recipient. - Despite the cost-cutting efforts expentilures have con tinued to escalate A part of the increase is due to rising costs of health care These cost are up 25 3 percent nat ionally over the past two years, compared vith a con sumer price index increase of only about 16.4 percent. The state's latest and bold est move to curtail .\ledi caid costs was in 1975 when it contracted with Health Appli cation Systems, a private company, to administer the progreTti fera 26-month period at a cost of W05 million —.The cobUact supposedly put a ceiling on the costs to the stateuntilJulvJ^jyTT^^^^ ^TRëcT^TÎê^ïïrmTh^Cha^^ lotte Post each week for the VALUABLE COUPON You have been selected to receive The Charlotte Post two full months free of charge—■ A $1.50 value with your order to continue for 10 additional months at only $6.50. A years sub scription to The Charlotte Post for only $6.50. Fill in the order blank below and mail it with your $6.50, or if you would like we will bill you later. —Mail Today Offer good to new subscribers only. If you can't use this give it to a friend. Order Blank Yes, Please mail The Charlotte Post to me. I understand I will only pay for 10 months but I will get The Poet for 1 year. 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