European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday february 20, 1986 families retirees reassured on health care from Paga 1 care for family members and retirees now served by champs. While family members and retirees May get health care from military facilities at no Cost they May seek treatment from civilian doctors under champs and pay an an Nual deductible charge and a share of the Bills. About 25 percent to 30 percent of family members and retirees now choose to go to civilian doctors. It s the Way we do business for that 25 to 30 percent that has to change Mayer said. There s going to be no reduction in the military medical  he said there is no intention of imposing such a plan overseas because what we re proposing is not something we think is feasible  we Don t have a plan yet. I Don t want you jumping to conclusions that we re going to make it Cost More for you or make it harder for you to get into the system Mayer said. We re trying to make it easier and at the same time not go totally  champs was started by Congress about 20 years ago. The Cost has swelled to an expected Cost of si.7 billion this year. The difficulty people have in getting champs reimbursement and other problems with the program is the largest single source of medical complaints to Congress the military s surgeons general and his office he said. Mayer said the military has no control Over the escalating costs of champs and no Way of imposing Quality controls on the health care provided military families by civilian doctors. It s a program that cannot be allowed to go along in the form it has been going on Mayer said. But he insisted that the Issue is not primarily Cost. The Issue is whether or not people can get the care they Are entitled to without going through a great Deal of difficulty and without a great Deal of uncertainty and often having to borrow Money to Start the process he said. Any program that is developed Mayer said will follow certain principles which include not restricting people s is photo by Tracy Baker or. William Mayer. No reduction Freedom of Choice of health care provider not reducing medical benefits and not costing people More Money. Bids to provide the care will be scored on an elaborate evaluation of technical Merit. Price will not account for More than 15 percent of the decision Mayer said. One woman to the applause of others asked when Are we going to restore the military hospitals to the Way they used to be. I m tired of it. 1m sick of  Mayer responded you re quite right when you say it would be Ideal if we had enough people and enough Mili tary hospitals to take care of the whole 10 million Active duty Ana family members worldwide  but he said no Congress or administration is willing to devote the amount of Money necessary to expand the Mili tary medical system when civilian medical facilities have empty Beds. Mayer said the proposals being talked about would not result in any cutback of military doctors or the number of patients being treated in military facilities. And he said no one expects All the family members and retirees to go to civilian doctors or contract facilities. Your Access to a Mil Ary facility will be unrestricted under any plan that we come up with he said. When asked about reports that he wants to increase the number of surgeons at the expense of paediatricians and obstetricians Mayer said he was misquoted. But he said the military s medical training programs need to be reviewed and adjusted so that More surgeons Are trained because the military has Only 40 percent of the surgeons it would need to go to War. At the same time he said the military has 5,400 percent of the paediatric Doc tors that it would need. I can t go out and just fire paediatricians and hire surgeons. The Law won t permit it. No one has proposed that least of All me he said. At the army Hospital at lands Lull Mayer also talked to members of special medical teams that can respond quickly to care for casualties of terrorist activities and other contingencies. Mayer was accompanied on his visits to military communities by rear adm. James a. Zimble and Brig. Gen. France f. Jordan. Zimble who two years ago headed a team critical of the european come s medical readiness Friday became Mayer s special assistant for strategic planning and medical program management. Formerly Atlantic Fleet surgeon Zimble said his new Job involves integrating peacetime and contingency medical plans. Jordan Deputy assistant Secretary of defense Tor medi Cal readiness served on the Zimble team. In the May 1 edition of . Medicine Magazine Jordan defended eur com s ability to handle medical emergencies. I 1 slide from Page 1 based on a midday Price fixing and allow Ance for Standard handling charges. See other conversion rates on Page 23. Dealers said the Dollar s renewed weak Ness followed overnight Falls in new York that came after Treasury Secretary James a. Baker indicated he would not mind a further drop in the Greenback s value United press International reported. A London dealer said it was started by Baker s statement and the Long term trend for the . Unit is still bearish up said Volcker s comments came As he Laid out the Central Bank s Money targets for 1986, which were set last week  Federal open Market committee the fed s policy making Arm. Volcker said the fed had made no significant change in monetary policy in re cent weeks. The comments indicated that the fed would not be moving to push inter est rates lower in coming weeks. The Central Bank said it was setting a target Range for growth in the Basic measure of the Money Supply known asm a at 3 percent to 8 percent in the coming year. This represented the same target Range established for 1984 and was a slight broadening of the Tenta be target set in july of 4 percent to 7 percent for m-lgrowihinl986. My which includes currency in circulation and the value of checking accounts grew above 12 percent last year. The expanded target for 1986 and Volcker s com ments indicated that the Central Bank was willing to live with growth above the target band Given the fact that the rate at which Money has been changing hands its velocity has been sluggish in recent years. The fed left its growth target for a broader category of the Money Supply known As m-2, unchanged at 6 percent to 9 Senate from Page 1 by Byrd and majority Leader Bob Dole r kan., said the balloting was plagued by widespread fraud on All  before the vote. Sen. Richard Lugar r ind., co chairman of a delegation of . Observers told his colleagues the group had witnessed widespread fraud. Sen. Edward m. Kennedy d-mass., called the election a Complete fraud and said he had talked to Corazon Aquino Marcos opponent earlier wednesday. Dole asked if the United states should end Aid to the Philippines replied i think we ought to have a Little More evidence before making such a move. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger testifying elsewhere on Capitol Hill said in the end the Only real beneficiary of a delayed or diminished military Aid program would be the communist new people s army and that is an outcome which we cannot  on tuesday sen. James Sasser d tcnn., introduced a Bill calling for an immediate halt to . Aid which he Esti mated at $250 million in the current fiscal year. The Marcos controlled National Assem Bly declared him a Winner last weekend Over Aquino but she and her supporters say she won. Democrats and republicans both criticized the balloting and said the United Stales should consider halting Aid. Reagan sent envoy Philip Habib to the Philippines to talk to All the parties concerned and the White House said tuesday it would not act until Habib returns. Earlier tuesday White House spokes Man Larry Speakes said it was too Early to halt Aid Speakes said we think that a number of qualified members of Congress Dis cussing the cutting off of Aid the removal of military bases Are very  Sasser said american Aid should be halted As a Way to withdraw us. Taxpayer support for the corrupt authoritarian re  he said a Ballpark figure is that his proposal would halt si50 million to $180 million because the rest of the estimated $250 million in . Aid has already been obligated. Arrow air crash victim buried in Germany bad Kreuz Nach Germany Sec. Joseph a. Nartia 34, a victim of the de Cember airline crash at Gander newfound land that killed 250 members of the 101st airborne div was buried Here wednesday. A native of Guam Nartia is survived by his wife Peggy and his son Joey Benja min 2, As Well As his parents who live in Guam. Peggy Nartia a German citizen has returned to Germany to live and wanted to have her husband buried Here an 8th inf div spokesman said. Nartia who entered the army in 1971, had several overseas assignments including two Tours in Vietnam one in South Korea one with the 8th inf div at bad Kreuz Znaco and a six month tour with the . Peace keeping Force in the Sinai desert. Nartia who was assigned to b co 326th engr  of the 101st, was returning to fort Campbell ky., aboard an Arrow air Char Ter flight when he was killed. Nartia who was awarded the Merito rious service medal posthumously was buried with full military honors including a 21-gun Salute the spokesman said. Percent for 1986. M-2 includes my plus savings accounts including Money Market deposits. The Central Bank in its economic predictions for 1986, said it expected the Economy to grow from 3 percent to 3.5 percent As measured from the fourth Quarter of 1985 to the fourth Quarter of 1986. This is less optimistic than the Reagan administration s prediction which Calls for the " Gross National product to grow 4 percent in 1986. 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