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a. e a • ' -_ Law by Congress in I960. . Hie response to this educa tional effort indicates that the public indeed had not been ade quately informed about the Kerr-Mills MAA Program. Many inquiries have been received by people who are not eligible for Kerr-Mills MAA assistance be cause they are not over 65 or for other reasons. The News tc Observer, therefore, editorial ly branded the program a “cruel hoax.” And in the pro cess, the News & Observer made a pitch for Medicare. Physicians of North Carolina submit that the real hoax is this sorcalled Medicare scheme, which responsible public opin ion polls as well as surveys by members of Congress have shown i? opposed by a majority of the American people. Let’s examine both the con ' cept of Kerr-Mills MAA and Medicare and what each pro vides. The News & Observer has im plied that Kerr-Mills MAA re quires an elderly person to pau perize himself before he can receive benefits. The revered, is true. The Kerr-Mills Law Was de signed to help those over 65 who need help when they need it and at the same time to con serve their resources. In North Carolina, for example, an eld erly person can have income of $104 a month, own his home, and $2,000 in savings and other assets, all of which he can keep untouched and still receive ben efits under Kerr-Mills MAA. •This program Is intended to pre vent a person over 65 from be / coming totally destitute before he can get help. < % W Kerr-Mills wisely provides help only to those who need it,' , thus avoiding waste of tax mon ey. The Medicare proposal, on the other hand, would force wage earners and their employ ers to pay a substantial increase in payroll taxes to provide hos pitalization and related bene pts to everyone over 65, regard less of need, the wealthy includ ed. Physicians believe such a -Which file or IIS Kerr-MIHa MAA pro loes not pay doctors bills No funds were provided do, so that hospitalization and ajhelt services cab be provided. There is provision in the law for payment of physicians if that is later deemed advisable. There is no provision at all for pay ment of physicians in the Medi care proposal. ‘ «» The fact is that no one in North Carolina is being denied medical care because he cannot in or drugs woul< provi ing home. Kerr-Mllljs MAA in North Car olina does not provide nursing home care. Many people believe that Medicare would provide nursing home care. There la a sneaker in that provision, how ever. Nursing home care would be provided only in a nursing home owned by or affiliated with a hospital, and there are only about 500 of these In the entire United States. The Medicare scheme has been sold to the American peo ple as the answer to all the med ical problems of the elderly, but in North Carolina and else where, it would provide less at greater cost to the aged patient who needs help and to the tax payers who pay the bill than the Kerr-Mills program. of North Caro truth, we are w" an judge which t, Kerr-MUL* with Program working -health insurance and prepayment plans rapidly ex panding in coverage for the eld erly, we are willing to let the people judge whether Medicare We believe the Legislature acted in good faith to provide this program, which is govern ed and controlled by the people who know the problem best, the people of North Carolina. We believe the people of North Car olina when they know the facto will agree that they don’t want federal bureaucrats meddling in our hospitals and interfering c qualified to ions m your doctors. We further believe that State Welfare Commissioner R. Eu gene Brown and his staff, with in the countless limitations im posed on them by a slow-mov ing State Board of Public Wel fare and by budgetary restric tions, have done a commenda ble job in developing North Carolina's Kftt-Mills MAA pro gram. . ■" -y The New* dr Observer urged you to write your senators and representatives in Congress about this! issue. We urge you to do likewise. RENEW YOUR JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION TODAYI If ran are planning to build a near bona. If you are planning to tail poor farm. If yen are planning to bay or sail any land of real estate. Contact the reel eetate man who wants to make just a a small profit. M. BAILEY BARROW REALTOR REAL ESTATE SALES - BUILDER - BROKER 2004 N. Queen Street Kinston, North Carolina Phone JA 3-6981 “This ad kills me...” “Incredible!” “Ridiculous!” “Farfetched!” “Hooey!” “Bunk!” “Hard to believe...” p.;4 » i; m - '•.•.a ■ a “ Must have had 50-year-old Rolls. 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