European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes March medicare forecast but it has Long Way to go stateside Washington a even though trustees predict that medicare wont run out of Money before health and services Secretary Margaret heckler says the Hospital insurance fund int out of the Woods a year social Security trustees said the medicare fund would be wiped out by and two years they thought it would go bust by the five trustees said thursday that the administrations proposed freeze on Hospital payment rates in coupled with earlier legislative reforms and a slowdown in medical have bought More time for one of three Cabinet officers who serve As said in a we still have a Long Way to but we Are finally taking the right and we Are headed in the right a Lon term solution to medicare problems will re quire Good Faith and Strong Medicine in the months and years she one dose of Medicine the Reagan administration wants to give medicare is a oneyear freeze in 1986 on the rates hospitals and physicians Are paid to treat various under the prospective payment system adopted in medicare pays hospitals set fees to treat various regardless of the length of a patients former social Security commissioner Robert Ball said the new forecast shows that the hand ringers Are once again its very he it Means we have plenty of time to make changes in medicare without the pressure of some the billion medicare program helps pay Hospital Bills and other health care costs for 27 million elderly people and nearly 3 million disabled Congress last year Cut the rate at which those fees can grow each the administration contends that it has the regulatory Power to freeze them entirely in but some lawmakers the other trustees who compiled the report were trea sury Secretary James Baker the managing trustee undersecretary of labor Ford Ford Mary Falvey Ful Ler and Suzanne in his capacity As acting labor Ford is an acting the trustees also said social Security should be Able to pay All benefits on time Well into the next Century under expected economic Spring is Bustin out All Over a photo Cherry blossoms Frame the Jefferson memorial in just in time for the annual Cherry Blossom festival which begins april the Early warm spell the area has experienced this year has caused the unfolding of the Little which usually Bloom anytime Between late March and late cancer kills teenage sect member a a 14yearold can cer Ridden girl who said god will heal me when he wants to heal me has died nearly two years after her parents tried to Block medical treatment on religious Pamela Hamilton slipped into a coma thursday morn ing and died very quietly at 2 in the company of her parents at said Brian Corden at Thompson childrens Hospital in who had treated Pamela since last described her As probably one of the singularly Brave girls Ive Ever met in my i dont think Ive Ever seen a Young lady who had quite the Type of bravery that Pamela she just fought to the very he Pamela Case Drew National attention in september 1983 when a state judge ordered her to undergo chemotherapy for a tumor on her left her a fundamentalist had tried to Block medical treatment on religious doctors said that the discovered three months had grown to the size of a football by the time the court stepped they said the Delav in treating Pamela had reduced her chances of survival from 75 percent to no better than 25 without the doctors said she would have died by in ordering the Tennessee court of appeals upheld a juvenile court judges ruling that Pamela was a neglected child and should be put in custody of the state department of human god will heal me when he wants to heal Pamela said after the first round of the treatments ended last september when doctors pronounced her free of the ewings Sarcoma that had caused the in a routine checkup revealed malignant tutors in her lungs and they said there was no but they would not publicly disclose her chances for sur Pamela Larry is a preacher with the Lafollete congregation of the Church of god of the Union Assembly and refused to seek treatment for his daughter because his sect forbids its members to take Medicine and believes Only god can after doctors reported in april 1984 that the tumor in her leg had stopped growing and there were no signs of other cancer Hamilton insisted that Faith had healed his god does and the doctors take credit for he said in an interview at the Corden said thursday that the Hamiltons had helped him and a Public health nurse care for Pamela in her final i think they feel totally he and i think they want very much to have a Chance to Grieve in private for inmates Bride a photo Evangeline Grant Redding pauses at the Entrance to the Virginia state prison in with James Briley father of death Row inmate James Redding and the inmate were married thursday at the near the electric chair where Briley is scheduled to die in three weeks for the murders of a pregnant Richmond woman and her 5yearold asked if she will return to the Penitentiary for the she i dont even think that were going to free this Man because he is Reagan makes More changes 1 aide 1 gets new Job Washington up president Reagan has announced another reshuffling of his top moving the White House closer to the streamlined Structure sought by new chief of staff Donald Reagan announced the resignation of Michael mama who has had a hand in scheduling and and the reassignment of Lee his link to state and local was rewarded with the title of full assist ant to the president in 1983 after his Success in arranging the economic Summit in he will return to the corporate a former aide to John r and Dean at Brown will be nominated by Reagan to succeed Philip Abrams As undersecretary of the department of housing and Urban House Democrat says Reagan gof profane1 in lobbying Effort Washington a a House democratic Leader says president Reagan turned angry and profane Dur ing a Telephone conversation about the my missile when the chief executive was asked Why he didst submit balanced to he got angry and profane with Arkansas Bill Alexander said in describing the Call he received during the presidents lobbying Campaign for the m x Alexander refused to say what words Reagan except to say the president called his questions Peter assistant White House press refused to confirm or deny the use of profane language by the we feel the presidents conversations with members of Congress Are a private elderly woman survives attack by pit bulldog in Missouri up an woman survived a mauling by a pit bulldog that attacked her As she raked leaves in her Yard and chewed her until a neighbor drove the beast away with a officials one of the woman legs was broken and the dog left bite Marks on her face and police the Helen was in fair condition at an Independence said a Hospital the dog will be confined to the Independence animal rabies control Center for at least 10 said animal control supervisor Bob the woman screamed and a neighbor called cording to a police who said the attack lasted no More than 30 another neighbor ran at the dog with a Broom and beat it off the he