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School toachot Block pride
Reorganize bealtb care before seeding government the bill
by U y w w Marshs!
regard to the total effect on health care.
As a result, analysts believe, govern
ment aid and competitive economics have
IP N S I-H e a lth care coats will keep
encouraged:
skyrocketing, despite President Carter's
•excess purchase of expensive equip
efforts to ground them, until a compre­
ment;
hensive national health plan replaces the
•excess construction:
jerry-built system that now encourages
•exeess hospitalisation;
needless spending by hospitals and
doctors.
•th e transfer of private care coats onto
the public bill:
That is the argum ent being made by a
•and the neglect of many health care
growing number of medical finance
specialists, who believe the coat of health
needs for which government incen
tives are lacking.
care depends not on w hether it's public or
California's Governor Brown observed,
private but on how it is organised.
shortly
after C a rter announced his plan,
President C a rter plans no comprehen­
that “the medical industrial complex
sive national health program until health
rivals the Pentagon for coat over runs
care inflation slows down. But that might
and out-of-control inflation.“
be putting the cart before the horse.
Ninety percent of all health care
According to Theodore M arm or of the
dollars, public and private, flow through
University of Chicago. D r. Rashi Fein of
financial intermediaries that take money
the Harvard Medical School and others, it
from consumers and the government and
is precisely the absence of a well organ­
give it to hospitals and doctors. The
ised national health plan th at allows coots
federal government most often uses the
to rise so rapidly.
non-profit
but private Blue Cross in
Since 1950. health care coots hove
surance organization.
jumped 1000 percent, more than anything
To some, this is putting the fox in
else on the consumer price index.
charge of the chicken coop.
Because the worst inflation hit at the
Blue Cross was founded by hospitals,
advent of the Medicare and Medicaid
and hospital representatives continue to
programs, some have blamed govern­
dominate its local boards of directors.
ment involvement.
Y et the rate of
Critics charge it has been responsive
increase is the same for both private and
prim arily to the hospitals, not to the
public health care here.
public.
Meanwhile in Great B ritain, where the
“The picture that emerges (of Blue
government funds moat health needs, the
Cross) is one of total unaccountability."
percentage of Gross National Product
according to Sylvia Law , director of the
spent on health care has dropped by
Health Law Project at the University of
about a third w ithin the past 15 years.
Pennsylvania.
One explanation is th at in Britain all
“Hospitals are paid in advance for
funds go through one governmental
whatever they claim. Books are audited,
agency, which also oversees quality
often years later, by commercial auditors
control and can prevent needless spend­
with no particular expertise in health
ing.
services and no capacity to judge wheth
In the U.S.. roughly $60 billion a year
er or not a cost is reasonable...”
in federal money is dispersed through a
This lack of accountability has allowed
plethora of public and private, profit and
hospitals
to load private care costs onto
non-profit agencies. Few are accountable
Medicare. The Journal of the American
to either the consumer or the govern­
Hospital Assorint isa. for example, re­
ment.
cently reassured its readers that to
And the funds are dispersed without
manipulate M edicare is neither immoral
nor illegal.
“On the contrary,“ it said, “it is a well
established principle that a tax|iayer may
take advantage of loopholes in the tax law
without any fear of criticism.'*
Knowing they w ill he reimbursed
almost without question by Medicare,
Blue Cross, or another form of insurance,
hospitals have been encouraged to spend
needlessly on equipment.
That explains why there are now
100,000 excess hospital beds in the
nation, by the estim ate of Health. Educa
tion and W elfare Secretary Joseph Cali
fano. And it sheds light on the over
supply of elaborate ultra specialized facil
Hies und the lark of l.adlv needed
outpatient and family care clinics.
In Seattle, there are five open-heart
surgery units, each costing $130,000 a
year, according to a study by the General
Accounting Office.
Together, they
provide a capacity for 1,092 operations,
yet only 300 are performed annually.
There are seven cobalt machines, each
by M artin B row s*
The Black Educational Canter School
s tirte d in M ay of 1970 aa a full tim e
summer program to help Black children
develop pride in th eir history and culture
and to sharpen th eir academic skills. The
Center set as its goal the opening of a full
tim e school. A fte r operating the summer
program and Saturday desses during the
school year, the Black Educational Center
opened its full tim e school in September
of 1973. “The success of the program has
always been because of the commitment
of parents to give th eir children an
excellent education and the hard work
and dedication of the teachers," says Ron
Herndon.
Herndon is the director of the Black
Educational Center School. The school
gives the children the regular academic
curriculum, plus enlightens them about
th eir Black culture and makes them a
well rounded individual. This is essential
because as Herndon says, “W hoever a
culture you have adopted, you w ill judge
yourself and others in that manner. W e
w ant three things from our children:
academic competence, thorough aw are­
ness of th eir culture and we w ant them to
help solve the problems of the Black
people." The-school has grades from 1st
to 4th. “This is a school that was designed
for the needs of Black children."
"W ithout the parents' support, and the
encouragement th at was given by the
Black community, it never would have
been. In no way do I mean to belittle the
support of others, but without Black
people's support, we would have been
gone a long tim e ago."
RON HERNDON
T h irty students are enrolled at the
school, and they have a staff of three
teachers. The parents help with fund
raising, helping supervise field trips and
offer suggestions about the curriculum.
Parents also have taught a class on some
topic they w ere fam iliar with.
One of the valuable lessons that the
Black Educational Center has taught is
that Black people are more than capable
of palnning, developiong and sustaining
programs th at are designed to meet their
needs. T hat w ith commitment, desire and
dedication Black people can successfully
work at solving the serious problems
they face.
Dr. Somier moves offices
Accomplishing the seemingly impos­
sible by maintaining uninterrupted ser­
vice for patients, the Sender Optical
Offices have moved th eir Portland oper­
ation to the new Sender Building at S.W .
3rd & Yam hill.
Sender's has been a
landmark at S.W . 3rd & Morrison for
over 3 generations.
The move was necessitated by the
downtown renew al program which has
called for the leveling of the entire block
bounded by T h ird . Fourth, Alder and
Morrison. The Sender Dental C lin k and
Sender Optical offices occupied space in
the 100 x 100 five story building which
was owned by the Sender family for over
60 years.
The Sender Optical Company was
founded in 1925 by D r. H a rry Sender
(Ddk deceased). Since 1962 his non D r.
L a rry Sender. Optom etrist, has headed
the Optometric firm w ith fully staffed
branch offices in Salem, Eugene and
Hazel Dell. In addition to Optometric
Services. H earing A id supplying is pro-
vided by the firm using modern electronic
testing devices uner the direction of
Licensed Hearing A id Technicians.
D r. Sender is a graduate of the Pacific
U niversity School of O ptom etry and is
associated in the four offices by the
following optometrists: D r. R. H ull. D r.
M. K elly, D r. J. B erry and D r. G.
Stenhouae - Portland, w ith D r. H . W ebb
-E u gene, D r. E. Kw an - Salem, and D r.
R Beaderstadt - Hazel Dell.
“Optometrical services have moved to
new degrees of vision correction perfect­
ion, as well as to new highs in fashion
lens, shapes and frames" D r. Sender
stated, explaining th at both varied focal
corrections are included not only in single
standard lenses but also in the very
popular contact lenses.
“Although our move was made under
an ultra short tim e lim it we hope to
announce the formal opening of our new
location as soon as the contractors put the
finishing touches on the remodeling of
our new offices at S .W . 3rd and Yam hill”
D r. Sender said.
Block Canees supports Young
W A S H IN G T O N . D .C . - The following
statem ent was released by the Congres­
sional Black Caucus afte r a meeting w ith
UJ*i. ambassador A ndrew Young, one in
a series of meetings w ith Cabinet at
ficials:
The opportunity to meet with our
form er colleague and present United
Nations Ambassador A ndrew Young
continues the close working relation­
ship members of the Congressional
Black Caucus have had w ith an individ­
ual who has given a crucial and
significant role in the formation and
implementation
of United
States
foreign policy.
Ambassador Young's willingness to
speak out with candor, truthfulness
and insight has brought a refreshing
openness to the conduct of our foreign
policy. I t is a measure of his success in
discussing with the p ub lk matters
formerly debated behind closed doors
th at concerted efforts have been
undertaken to undercut hia position
and strength
I t is no wonder that
there is constenation among those who
have failed to apeak out against racist
regimes, who
have
subordinated
human rights to 'Realpolitik.”
As a member of the Congressional
Black Caucus. Ambassador Young was
among the leaders of our efforts to
move the United States government
toward policies which would lead to
m ajority rule for the people of south
em Africa He was an early leader of
those who moved for a bar on the
importation of Rhodesian Chrome, now
part of our laws. He was among the
Caucus members who m et w ith form er
Secretary of State Kissinger to urge
these and other positions on the
government.
Today, when he has the position and
th e influence to make his views heard
and to bring policy into conformity
w ith w hat can only be described as
elem entary positions, hia views are
called into question by those who
would have us forget th eir vigorous
support for past foreign policy mis­
takes. including the w ar in Vietnam
and the support of regimes in daily
violation of the principles our nation
espouses.
W e are heartened that Ambassador
Young has brought serious discussion
about policies and practices w hkh have
been enmeshed in the inertia of the
status quo. The President's support
for hia efforts is well-justified. The
Congress, itself, is to be commended
tor soundly defeating just last week an
attack on the Ambassador through an
amendment to cut his staff. All decent
Americans must speak out against
scurrilous attacks on members of the
Ambassador's staff on the floor of
Congress.
The attem p t to red-bait
leading national figures is a shocking
rem inder that we have not fully es­
caped the m entality that plagued the
country in the 1950’s.
W e know, and Andy Young knows,
that change comes only through strug­
gle. His courageous efforts to bring
about change in the nation's foreign
policy and to b e tte r the condition ot
people throughout the world deserve
the nation's respect and support.
77ie Nation
N E W YO R K - That was a landm ark
decision in Washington on A p ril 18 when
the U.S. Court of Appeals reversed a
low er court's decision denying the con­
tention of a form er physicist for the
D epartm ent of N a vy , Thames E . Kiswey,
th at he was refused a position aa a
securities salesman because of his race.
Although he passed all exams and had
outstanding qualifications Legg. Mason &
Co. refused him a job. His appeal was
handled by Chester C. Davenport and
W illie L . Leftw ich of the famous D.C.
firm Hudson & Leftw ich, aided by D rew
Days, I I I , now Assistant A tto rn ey Goner
al for Civil Rights for the Departm ent of
Justice.
M . C arl Hefanaa, President of the
National Urban Coalition put it very
succinctly w hy the struggle for civil
rights continues when he addressed the
H a rv ard L aw Forum . “In the period of
more than 350 years w h k h have elapsed
as Blacks passed from legally enforced
bondage to the legalized status of free
citizens and workers...none of the laws,
executive orders, court decrees, and
governmental agencies created during
th at tim e have y e t managed to close the
economic gap between the Blacks and the
whites,” he observed.
Tereace Tadmaa, Black Assistant Secre
tary of State headed a seven-member
U.S. delegation to Cuba, the first such
meeting in 16 years. Discussion was over
overlapping fishing zones off Florida.
/ I 1976 study by the Social Security
A> (ministration found that eoopei atively
fu ruled hoHpitais such as the Kaiser
IS iiln a n e n te Plan or the Health Insurance
P la n of New York, which provide incen
Uv es for coat saving, hospitalise and
p< 'rform surgery at only half the rate of
pr i viito institutions. The average length
of I hospitalisation was three times shorter
in such situations.
I T he authors, Clifton Gans, Barbara
Co opor and Constance Hirschman. also
fou nd. that patients had bettor access to
phj/sicians in the cooperative hospitals.
Tht *y get to doctors in an average of six
hou irs while private practice patients
hav e» to wait an average of 13 hours.
tU this suggests that try in g to control
the rising cost of health care simply by
snn- ouncing a ceiling on inflation, as the
Carl
administration is proposing, is not
lik e ly to be effective.
N o It her w ill more health insurance,
wheels ar public or private, according to
heail.it economist M arm or.
“I W hatever insurance-public or p ri­
vate »-is offered as a cure for medical
infla tion, it
becomes iatrogenic-the
disei ise of which it purports to be the
cure, ”
M arm or writes in the current
issue of the journal. The Public interest.
“W i t need instead a plan that provides
ample protection against disastrous med­
ical c< M ts, encourages w orthwhile preven­
tive i ’.are, and offers incentives to ef­
ficient practice."
Got ’em or Brown came closer to the
heart of the issue when he proposed a
healtl i care cost commission, which would
have , p nw er to set maximum rates for a
full ri inge of hospital services, from room
charg es to x-ray fees. He noted that
hospit al care had already been “social
ized" because the bills of most patients
are pi lid by an “invisible third hand."
goverr iment or insurance companies.
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of which cost $95,000 to install. But they
are used at only 66 percent of capacity.
Similar studies in other major cities
reveal virtually identical patterns of
overbuilding and overequipping.
A
popular new item is the C A T Scanner, an
X-ray machine that allows the physician
to obtain a 3-D picture of internal organs.
I t cost at least $600,000 to install.
Hospitals in Southern California have
already bought more C A T scanners than
are needed for the entire western U.S.,
according to Bernard Tresnowski, senior
vice president of Blue Cross. Yet. he
says, “the precise uses, benefits and
limitations of these scanners have not yet
been determined."
Hospitals overload on such technology
because they are competing for doctors
and neither Blue Cross nor anyone else
requires them to cooperate regionally.
Meanwhile, physicians who know they
•M arti
will be reimbursed for hospital treatm ent
News f
but not out-patient care overuse the
eeonon
expensive facilities, often in a manner
of (o il
injurious to patients' best interests.
■> Brown, science editor af Pacific
i.srvice, teaches in the agricultural
lies department of the University
ioraia, Berkeley.
-------------------- - O bitu ary ________________
Stanton H. Duke, 70, died Friday from
injuries resulting from an automobile
accident.
Duke, who was a native of Galesburg.
Illinois, lived in Portland for 69 years. He
was a dining car w aiter for Union Pacific
for 46 years.
Duke was a form er supervisor of the
transportation unit of the Senior Adult
Service Center.
He was an active
member of the Railroad Senior Citizen's
Association.
H e is survived by z rsn, Clarence
N E W Y O R K -S o m e observations at
symposium on Rrota: M yth or Reality?
held at N Y U . Prof. E lliot Skinner of
Columbia University said: "what Haley
said ia not new. DuBois said it. C a rter D .
Woodson has said it. and J .A . Rodgers.
He (Haley) placed it in context. He also
created jealousy and embarrassment
among whites."
Prof. E ric Perkins.
Temple U niversity: “T h e center of the
story ia creative imagination...poetic
license. It's a picture o f slavery aa he
sees it." Prof. E ric Foner, Princeton U.:
“Roots is so popular among whites
because it shows a fam ily can face and
overcome adversity. t k
are the values of middle Am erica.” Basil
Paterson, form er vice chairman. National
Democratic Comm ittee: “W e should take
it (Beets) as it was or take it not at all. I l l
take it aa ia.”
Church Notes
- »-- f Putt
Gssrge Dailey, Adm inistrative Assist
ant to Rep. Charles Rangel (D ., Harlem )
is reported to be moving to the State
Departm ent as a D eputy Assistant on
International Affairs.
. Watson, who was
dropped by the Nixon Administration
from her job as A dm inistrator of the
Bureau of Security and Consular Affaire
of the State D epartm ent, was sworn in a
second tim e by her brother. U.S. Cust
oms Court Judge James L. Watson, after
her reappointment by the C arter Adm in­
istration.
Stanto n Duke of Santa Barbara. Calif.: a
daught '.er, Betty Jean Kemp of Portland;
a step daughter. Penny E. M ylar of Fort
Knox. K y .; tw o sisters. M arguerite D.
Griffit. h ot Portland and lone V. Duke of
San F r lin ciare; a niece, Wanda A. Chap
ron of San Francisco, and three grand
childre n. Lauri Kemp, Beverly Duke and
David ' I'. W illiams, all of Portland.
Fune r a? services were held Wednesday
at Bet)--.*\ African Methodist Episcopal
Church .. Burial was a t Rose City Geme
i * ry- i.u I,.
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The New Hope Missionary Baptist
Church will begin services of celebration
on Wednesday evening, M ay 18th and
continue through Sunday M ary 22nd.
Reverend A. Bernard Devers, Pastor,
extends an invitation to the public to
participate.
The
Senior Usher Board of Bethel
A .M .E . Church is having its T hird Annual
Rainboi * Tea. I t will be Sunday, May
22nd fn im 1 to 5 p.m. at the home of M r.
& Mrs. W illiam Noble. 13606 N .E . F re ­
mont C o u r t .
AMA service commemorates flood
On JSunday, M ay 29th. the Albina
M inisterial Alliance w ill hold it ’s second
Interdenominational worship service at
the Allen Tem ple Christian Methodist
Church, located on N .E . 8th and Skid
more Street.
The major event of the service will be
the community choir made up of people
who lived in the old Van port community
prior to the Flood in 1948. Also a number
of people will share th eir experiences
while living int hia community that was
established to supply labor for the ship
yards su id other defense needs during
World 'W a r H.
The p u filie ia invited to come and share
in thia 1 listorical experience. Also those
citizens who lived in Van port are request­
ed to « » me and rehearse for the mass
choir.
T h e last reheraal will be on
Monday.
May 23. at Allen Temple
Church, Also any person who would like
to share th eir experience while in Van
port are .inked to contact Mrs. Crow at
the LIF1E- C enter. Northeast Union and
Russell S t r e e t . Phone 284-6878.
PORTLAND
CLEANING WORKS
A rm y Secretary Clifford Alexaader
has chosen D r. Percy P ierre, dean of the
How ard U n iversity School of Engineer
ing as the new Assistant Secretary for
Research and Developm ent, Pentagon
sources have revealed.
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