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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!
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Kennedy: Insuring the insurance companies
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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
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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
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