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Health care battle expected
WASHINGTON (AP) President Carter's proposal to
limit a family's annual health-care bill to $2,500 appears
destined for an election-year congressional struggle with
overtones of presidential politics. .
Influential Democrats who would guide health insurance
legislation are, for the most part, cautiously critical of the
latest in Carter's national health insurance plans.
Most appeared unwilling to pick a direct fighrwith the
president over Health Care, as his proposal is called. But
Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who introduced
his own version of national health insurance last month,
labeled Carter's plan "inflationary and too inequitable."
"The bottom line is...we can't afford it," Kennedy told a
news conference.
Carter's lijnited health care plan would combine Medicare
and state-run Medicaid plans for the poor in a program
estimated to cost $23 billion to $25 billion in 1983, the first
year it would be in effect. The bulk of that would go for the
federal takeover of Medicaid plans.
Carter's plan would also protect everyone against the costs
of catastrophic illness by ending limits on Medicare
payments and requiring private health insurance plans to
limit a family's liability for hospital and medical bills to
$2,500 a year'
Kennedy's plan would insure everyone against most health
care costs and impose strong cost controls on both hospitals
and physicians. Private insurers would provide improved
coverage for working Americans while Medicare-Medicaid
programs would expand services to the elderly and poor.
The nation's 1979 health care bill is estimated to total $206
billion. The $23 billion to $25 billion cost of Carter's plan
would be in addition to that, while Kennedy says his proposal
would add only about $5.4 billion.
Hearings on the various national health insurance
proposals including Carter's and Kennedy's, will run most of
the year and may come up for a full H ouse and Senate vote in
1980.
Carter: Til whip his ass'
WASHINGTON (APIf Sen. Edward M: Kennedy
make,s a run for the 1980 Democratic presidential
nomination, President Carter is quoted as saying he will
"whip his ass."
Two congressmen who attended a White House dinner
earlier this week said Tuesday night, that Carter made the
remark after being asked about a possible challenge by
Kennedy. ,t .
Reps. William Brodhead, D-Mich., and Thomas Downey,
D-N.Y., said they both heard Carter reply, in answer to the
question, "If Kennedy runs, I'll whip his ass."
H-bomb article still pending
MILWAUKEE (AP) At a hearing attended only by
persons who had obtained security clearance from the
government, a federal judge heard arguments on whether he
should lift a preliminary injunction preventing publication of
an article on the hydrogen bomb.
; U.S. District Court Judge Robert Warren said Tuesday he
would rule in a few days on the motion by The Progressive
magazine asking him to vacate his March 26 order granting
the government's request to block publication of the article.
The magazine, which has appealed to the 7th Circuit Court
of Appeals in Chicago, also asked the lower court to vacate
the order after attorneys said recent disclosures showed
information in the article was on a library shelf open to the
public at Los Alamos. N.M.
"Our affidavit said that because this information is out in
the open anyway, it is pointless for the court to enjoin us,"
said Sam Day, the magazine's managing editor.
The Justice Department contends information in the
article is restricted under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.
Man flies across Channel
CAP GRIS NEZ, France (AP) The first human aircraft
engine to conquer the English Channel says he did it to prove
' there are still "pleasing, challenging, physically strenuous"
goals that "add to rather than subtract from the whole
human experience."
Bryan Allen, the 6-foot, 137-pound Californian whose
pedal power turned the propeller that pushed the wide
wirtged, 70-pound Gossamer Albatross across the 22-mile
channel in 2 hours 49 minutes Tuesday, said maybe he will
make a movie demonstrating his craft in flight.
It was the longest man-powered flight in history, winning
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Taylor improves
U NC ChanceJIlor N. Ferebee Taylor was
released Monday from the N.C.
Memorial Hospital coronary care unit
and is reported to be resting comfortably
at the hospital. Taylor was hospitalized
last week after suffering a mild heart
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Hunt to curtail smuggling
RALEIGH (AP) Gov. Jim Hunt ordered state revenue
officials Monday to crack down on cigarette smuggling out
of North Carolina, he said in an interview Monday.
"I have told them that it is a primary responsibility of the
Revenue Department to help reduce cigarette smuggling,
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Revenue Secretary Mark G. Lynch should assign a higher
priority to enforcement of laws affecting North Carolina
distributors who sell to smugglers, he said.
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Nicaragua fighting continues
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) Sandinista guerillas held
control of slum districts in Managua Wednesday, firing at
President Anastasio Somoza's national guardsmen from
behind barricades despite rocket and strafing attacks by
government planes.
Somoza reported heavy fighting also in the northern cities
of Matagalpa and Leon, but a photographer who arrived
from Leon said it. was almost completely under guerrilla
control and fighting had subsided.
Widespread looting broke out in Managua, and the U.S.
Embassy prepared another airlift of Americans following the
evacuation of 61 Tuesday from Somoza's private airstrip. An
embassy source said five or six flights were being planned
because of requests from frightened Americans trying to flee
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