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I Portland Observer Thursday. May 31,1979 PageS Interests vary for Cleveland senior Lori Reynolds, an honor student at Cleveland High School, is the youngest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Walter Reynolds. Lori was presented by her parents at the Links, Inc. Springtime •‘ S tarlight” C o tillio n held this year at the Sheraton Hotel. As mentioned above, Lori stands high in her graduating class; she is a member o f the National Honor So ciety and was the recipient o f an award as the "M o st Outstanding Spanish Student” at Cleveland. She was a member, also, of the French Club; and, because she likes journa lism, Lori enjoyed a year on the staff o f C levelan d ’ s yearbook, ” The Legend.” As a member o f Girls' League, Lori became a publicity representa tive for them, and was a delegate-at- large for the Senior Class Cabinet. With an interest in things medical, L o ri became a member o f the M edical Explorers G roup which ENERGY. We can't a ffo rd to w aste it. meets each week at Providence Hospital, and she also had a turn at being a Candy Striper at Holladay Park Hospital where she earned two Certificates of Recognition. Lori believes in a goodly amount of physical exercise, too, and kept up her energies through gymnastics, the Bowling Club and as a membe.- • f Cleveland's Dance team. Outside o f school Lori was an ac tive member o f Jack and Jill o f America in the Portland Chapter. She also found time to develop her skills at playing the piano, the violin and the guitar As might be expected when there are so many talents to develop, Lori will have to choose, for a while, which one she will pursue. She has good reason to expect to be suc cessful in medicine, in child psycho logy or aerospace engineering. She must choose her college soon and we wish her well wherever she decides to go. LOOK FOR THE BIG "T" "A Sure Sign of Good Taste" Princesses w a it Festival events (Pictures on Page II by Kathryn H. Bogle Excitement is running high and gaining momentum daily for young people everywhere who are expecting to be graduated in June. For these three girls, Princess Lynn Talton o f Adams High School, Princess Lori Smith of Wilson and Princess Devi Porter o f Jefferson, and for all the Princesses who are among the 13 young women o f the 1979 Rose Festival Court, the pace is shifting into high gear. Their long awaited graduation is nigh, and the night for queen selection and coro nation is nearly here. All 13 Princesses have been fitted for attractive new wardrobes. They have been curled and manicured, they have been hurried to appoint ments here and there, they have been dined at the hotels, they have been coached where to stand, how to sit. and they have been photographed countless times. Each is a star repre senting her own school and she must feel some responsibility to represent her school well, and she bears herself proudly. Friday evening the die will be cast; the judges will take note, and the Queen o f Rosaria will receive her sceptor and her crown and all her royal robes and trappings. She will smile her greetings to her new sub jects in Rosaria. Then there will be the whirlwind of Rose Festival week with the drums, the bands, the bagpipes scurling, the roses, the crowds, while the Queen and all her Princesses smile and smile through it all. Long live the Queen o f Rosaria! Only one can be Queen, while 12 can be Princesses. W hat terrific scrapbooks they may all have to leaf through later on! Long live 12 Princesses, too! “ Pork Steak $■ t e a t ». I . Z T Fruit Cocktail Libby's Peaches Libby's M e . Pak..................... 16 ox. S S dS ~ “ ' . . » Sauerkraut Snack Pack Cheez-Whiz Joel is Here 281-2836 2 / $ l 49« «„99* . „ $109 Libby's....................................................27 LORI REYNOLDS „ 58* S.l. 20th ft «VISIO N 14410 S.E. «VISION S.l. 72nd ft RAVEL 3955 S.E. POWELL N.E. 15th ft FREMONT N.E. 74th ft SUSAN W. BURNSIDE at 2 H l HILLSBORO-960 S.E. OAK . SAN RAFAEL-1910 N.E. 122nd ox. For»«» Orova-2329 FACtHC Oragan C ty -S 7t MOLALLA Canby-1 OSI S.W. H t LLOYD CENTER T R □O0QD L L Kennedy: Insuring the insurance companies (Continued from Page 1 Column 4) passage. Kennedy's Health Care for A ll Americans Plan is designed to be eminently possible. Organized labor is likely to stick with it, whatever its deficiencies. It not only guarantees the future of union health plans by federalizing them (a major gain in light o f cutbacks in a number o f union health plans following bitter contract disputes), it also provides a financial advantage to unionized workers. Non-union workers would be required to pay 35 per cent o f the payro ll tax that would fund it. Unions, however, would have the option o f trying to force the entire burden o f that tax on employers through collective bargaining. The provision *of what one Ken nedy spokesman called “ a meaning ful role for private insurance com panies,” could go a long way toward neutralizing the opposition o f the powerful Blue Cross and Blue Shield health insurance organizations, as well as that o f the American Hospital Association (A H A ) and the Am erican M edical Association (A M A ), which maintain close ties to the''Blues.” But it is precisely this private in surance proviso in the new Kennedy proposal that critics charge is a damaging retreat from an acceptable n ational health insurance plan. C orm an argues that allow ing a proliferation o f private insurance plans — and structuring separate She’s unmarried. She’s pregnant. She needs help. She should call 221-0598 Oirthrieht free confidential counseling for pregnant girls Mayer Building at I I JO S.W . Morrison progism s fo r the em ployed, the unemployed, the old, and the poor — will result in a program ‘ ‘that is not really universal health insurance, that creates a great disparity in the ways in which different people are treated. You will end up with a program that is unmanageable.” C orm an’s Health Security Act, formerly the Corman-Kennedy bill, has 47 co-sponsors in the House. “ W e are going to try io move national health insurance as far as we can in this direction,” a spokesper son for Corman said. Opponents o f the current Kennedy and Carter proposals also contend that the participation o f private in surance companies will obstruct cost control. Says Marilyn Elrod, a health specialist for Representative Dellums: “ We are totally against the Kennedy and C arte r proposals. Once you let the insurance com panies in, you will never be able to control costs.” Before Medicare passed, the late Senator Wayne Morse (D -O R ) warn ed against including Blue Cross as financial intermediary. “ Blue Cross is essentially a creature o f the hospi tals," he argued. “ It cannot possibly serve as the agent o f government.” H ow ever, Blue Cross and the A M A had engaged in intense lob bying to assure a role for Blue Cross under Medicare and later Medicaid. The results seem to confirm the fears o f critics like Morse. After the implementation o f Medicare in 1967, the rate of inflation in medical care costs, already high, doubled. Numerous investigations have attri buted this super-inflation directly to the poor fin an cial supervision provided by Blue Cross, which serves as the financial interm ediary for 6,876 out o f 7,906 of the hospitals participating in Medicare. According to Sylvia Law, o f the Health Law Project o f the University o f Pennsylvania, “ The picture that emerges (o f Blue Cross) is one o f total unaccountability. Hospitals are paid in advance for whatever they claim. Books are audited, often years later, by commercial auditors (hired by Blue Crocs) with no particular ex pertise in health services and no capacity to judge whether or not a cost is reasonable . . . when par ticu lar items are caught and questioned, the hospital can engage in an extended dispute with the inter mediary, confident that the inter m ediary w ill not be excessively ‘aggressive* in pursuing the matter.” P ro fit-m a k in g insurance com panies would have equally strong financial motives for permitting in flated health care costs and the proliferation o f unnecessary and ex pensive services to continue: the larger the total flow o f money through private insurance companies as financial intermediaries, the larger is the volume o f profits they can realize. The new Kennedy proposal specifically eliminates some o f the most atrocious financial abuses that have occurred under Medicare, such as the ways in which hospitals are allowed to obtain reimbursement for capital depreciation costs. And a Kennedy spokesperson told PNS that by encouraging competition in the health insurance industry and by requiring prospective budgeting (set ting costs in advance o f payment), the Kennedy plan would provide ef fective cost control measures. Ken nedy claims that the program will ac tually result in a cut in total national spending on health care by $38 billion a year by 1983. But critics are skeptical o f cost- control mechanisms that fa il to break-up the cozy relationship be tween health care providers and private health insurance organiza tions. Says Elrod, “ We have had a kind o f prospective budgeting under Medicare and that hasn’t stopped the accelerating rate o f health care in flation.” As it stands, the critics charge, the Kennedy and Carter plans would only pour more money into a health care system plagued by professional rigidity and stagnation. The bills would do nothing to correct the current severe m aldistribution o f health care resources, or to ease the national burden o f health cost in flation. Shoppingfar a 25 e s t mpg car? Come to Chrysler. According to the 1979 EPA Gas Mileage Guide, Chrysler has more 25 est. mpg models than GM or Ford. (Models counted by make and model type.) When comparing models with standard engines and transmissions . . . Chrysler has 4 models that top GM's best mileage car, Chrysler has 4 models that top Ford’s best mileage car, Chrysler has 12 models that top every one of G M ’s new' "X" cars. Chrysler has 5 models that top the gas engine VW Rabbit. Chrysler has 12 models that top Toyota Celica. And nobody has more 30 est. mpg gas models than Chrysler. And it you're looking for 6 passenger room. along with g<xxl mileage—we've got that, too. The Plymouth Volare and FXxlge Aspen sedans. With slant six cylinder engine and optional automatic transmission both got better mileage (18 est. mpg*) than com parably equipped Granadas and Monarchs FXxlge St. Regis and Chrysler Newport with standard super six engine and auto matic transmission got better mileage (17 eyt. mpg*) than Chevrolet Caprice Classics and Impalas comparably equipped. If you want high mileage . .. crime to the PhpuotiHi mileage maker (Martin Brown Is the former Wast Coast representative of Science In the Public Interest and author of The Social Responsibi lity of the Scientist.) Police hire The Portland Police Department will hire summer employees begin ning in June, to work in the records and detective departments. Qualifi cations include typing 40 wpm and ability to work nights and weekends. Call 248-5653. C hrysler Corporation. No. 1 in gas m lloago ol thè Big 3. B.ised on prò (erteti 1979 Corporate Averagr fu ri l.toooiny raiings. • U j» EPA m mp* num ber, (or cnmpwMnn vour mik-ajtr mav differ drprndinx on tpprd. trip k*n»jh and « v a ih r i C .ililo rn u r M in u t n kwtrr / V
