European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday january 27, the stars and stripes Pace 9 Paul Harvey heretofore was our country1 biggest bar you could enjoy Hospital room arid Board for lest than the same accommodation would Cost in a first class hotel. Not any More. Since medicare and Medico id the Cost of a Day s stay in the Hosp Taj has soared to an aver age $54 a Day and rising. So Long As the government is picking up the Bill Many hospitals Norseng Homes and pharmacists have chosen to sock h to the government. You and i Are the govern ment so our social Security taxes were increased another .4 Ira c. Eaker per cent of our incomes As of fait Jan. 1. Further increases Are inevitable As the costs of Hosp Tai Iza Tion soar. Patient x in a Chicago Hospital was charged $30 a Day for anti coagulant pills which previously sold for less than 30 cents per Dally dose but if you enter the Hospital stating that you Are eligible for either medicare or medicaid in Many instances you can expect an exorbitantly inflated Bill. Since the government will pay for most of it few such patients complain. As Secretary of welfare Wil Bur Cohen conducted hearings medical charges ions in Viet dilemma two Campaign promises to secure peace in Vietnam and re Duce crime in the United states appear to have been largely responsible for the election of presi Dent Nixon. One of his primary concerns and tasks will now be to eliminate or drastically reduce the vast expenditure of . Blood and treasure in Southeast Asia 50,000 casualties and $30 billion last year. These Appeal to be the presi Dent s options in Vietnam he can admit that our Effort there has failed begin at once the withdrawal of . Forces and abandon the South vietnamese and our asian allies to their cer Tain and cruel Fate. But this would not be consistent with his Promise to obtain an honorable peace. There is nothing in or. Nixon s background to suggest that he is indifferent to or tolerant of communist aggression. The new president can continue the policy of the Johnson administration remain on the defensive defend the South Viet namese from invasion from to North and from the Viet Cong As Best we can through the limited application of Force while sparing North Vietnam from at tack and hoping to achieve an acceptable settlement at the parts peace table. Nothing which has occurred in Paris or in Vietnam since the initial peace talks began lends any hop that an honorable peace can com from this option. More than 7.000 . Troops and 10,000 South vietnamese have been killed since the Paris negotiations began. It should now be evident to the most hopeful and sanguine that to Chi Munh agreed to Send his team to Paris to Stop the bombing of North Vietnam until our november election when he believed Antiwar sentiment would fore the withdrawal of . Troops from Vietnam. There is not the slightest evidence that he and his russian and chinese Al lies have abandoned the of plan it unit Vietnam under 9 communist government. Next or. Nixon can follow the example set by president Eisen Hower in Korea. Eisenhower con Vinced the North koreans that they must discontinue their inva Sion of the South and negotiate a settlement or he would use our vastly Superior resources to de stroy their capacity to continue the conflict. There is another korean example pertinent now in Vietnam. We trained and equipped South korean forces at maximum Effort and supplied them with All modern weapons. There can be no honorable withdrawal of . Forces from Vietnam until South vietnamese armed forces and the provincial police have been adequately trained and equipped to Deal with the North vietnamese invaders and the Viet Cong. We have furnished the South vietnamese no modern weapons except my 6 rifles and this began Only last year. They cannot de fend themselves until their ground forces have artillery rockets helicopters transports tanks and supporting tactical air forces. There will be no solution in Vietnam until our leaders and Bur people understand and accept reality about conditions there. The National liberation front is not a political party like democrats or republicans in this country. The Elf the political leaders of the Viet Cong Are criminals. In the to offensive they attacked every provincial capital murdering More than 30,000 unarmed civilians if the american communist party with arms supplied by rus Sia began hitting our villages at night with rockets murdering mayors and police kidnapping our Young men for forced labor and Young women for forced prostitution Here would be no de Mand in this country to admit them to our government or treat them As a reputable political party. Yet that is exactly what we Are asking of the South Viet namese c 1w9, general feature corp. The opinion exp of in the column and cartoon on that pane represent Thoc of the Uthon and Are in no Way to to con old red a a pro edit no the View of the Star and str Pei in a or of the United stator government. Around the nation in the medi Caid program. I findings will almost certainly Lead in the new Congress to demands for federally regulated fees and charges. Bert Seidman is director of the social Security department for the Al Cio. He says some unethical medical professionals Are bilking Federal and state govern ments of millions of dollars in the medicaid program for the indigent medicaid of course is intended to pay Hospital and doctors fees for those otherwise unable to pay. It is financed jointly by Federal and state funds. That Means it is financed entirely by the taxes you pay. Its costs have soared beyond All projections. Seidman says it would be the height of injustice to penalize the poor by barring them from needed health care while continuing to line the pockets of greedy providers who View the program As a get Rich scheme for doctors nursing Homes and phar Seidman demands Federal whenever we ask government to do for us something which heretofore we have done for our selves we invite government to police its own investment. The costs of government Medicine Are pyramiding so fast that Congress will have to de cide within this year whether to increase such taxes further or to fix prices for Hospital rooms medicines treatments and doctors and nurses fees. Doctors and Hospital administrators Are certain to decry the further regimentation of their professions but it is inevitable whenever we fail properly to discipline and regulate ourselves that big government has All the excuse it needs to move in and Sno Pervise our private lives the Public c 1969, general feature corp. N of let s just give him a Chance Roy Wilkins history show a phony in new York City a television series has been launched under the false Banner that it is a his tory of negro Amer ans. If the first telecast purporting to be a preview of the series is any guide Black heritage should be defined As a plea for Black separatism. This viewpoint ought to have exposure. It should be submitted to debate and there should be Opportunity for rebuttal. No Small group out of a total popu lation of 22 million should be permitted to employ plausible minority talk backed by Subtle pressures of a kind present in All racial crises to secure distribution of a partisan viewpoint masquerading As history. The cosponsors Columbia University and the Columbia Broad casting system have denied that the series is biased. Yet the very first telecast contained a persistent questioning and Down grading of the accomplishments of Black americans b no out line of the steady and spread ing if insufficient advances that have been mad in All Fields and c a Clear and repeated pushing Forward of the separatist position. The negro americans who or stars in the world of sports As Well As those in the theater films concert opera and orches tras Are simply still entertaining for american society according to or. Vincent Harding the first narrator. Duke Ellington a great composer then has t done a thing since 1924. Nor has Wil Liam Grant still or the artist pro Ducer Harry Belafonte. Put Down Are Wilt Chamberlain Willie Mays Joe Louis Wilma Mayo Bob Hayes Lena Home Jackie Robinson and a Host of others. Negroes Are feeling some what strange about that enter Belafonte Ellington to aliment role says or. Harding and Are wondering what our future the program sees no Hope in elected negro officials. Mayor Stokes of Cleveland and mayor Hatcher of Gary what does that mean we wonder turning to Thurgood Marshall first negro Justice on the . Supreme court the narrator says but still Black people have mixed feelings about these or Harding asserts some of us have already declared their Independence and a new nation has come into being the Republic of new in the Strug Gle Black americans Are tempted toward american answers but hear the prophets like Franz Fanon telling them to shun european ways. The narrator puts his suggestion in this Plain Lan Guage for so often the roles of Black americans de seem to bind us closet than Ever to the status quo of american life and we ask if that is where we ought to if this is a history of negro americans then i am the Prince of Wales. Even when a slip occurs As in the passage one of the marvelous things about the Black american scene is that we have never been willing to stay in the Back on the Side in the Shadow the assertion is never made that negroes have made their Way up in american life. In the face of ugly racial situations in a dozen spots this to double talk on revolutionary separatism is a dangerous exaggeration. The truth is that the real honest to god separatists n o t Blacks who Are just dissatisfied would not fill the All negro town of Boley Okia. Lei Register and Tribune Syndicate inc
