European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 tic the stars and stripes Friday february 21. 1986 official says medical benefits won t suffer from Page 1 government docs not do business thai Way and we re not going to do business that Way we live in housing built by the lowest bidder one woman observed. Mayer said he is in Europe to answer questions and to Clear up some very serious misconceptions that have come about As people have heard bits and his appearance was scheduled for Only 45 minutes but he spent More than twice that Lime liking and listening. Mayer has proposed seeking a National insurer or con tractor to provide health care Tor the family members and retirees who Are 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 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 he 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 total of $1.7 billion his year. The difficulty people have in getting champs reimbursement and other problems with the program make it the largest single source of medical complaints to con Gress 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 to 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 adding that the Issue is not primarily one of-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 he said will not restrict people s choices of health care providers not reduce medi Cal benefits and not Cost 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 wide applause said when Are we going to restore the military hospitals to the Way they used to be. I m tired of it. I m 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 personnel and 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 military 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 need to be reviewed and adjusted to produce More surgeons the Mili tary has Only 40 percent of the surgeons it would need in wartime. He said the military has 5,400 percent of the podiatric doctors 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 Uhl 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 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 the Atlantic Fleet sur Geon Zimble said his new Job involves integrating peace time and contingency medical plans. Jordan Deputy assistant Secretary of defense for medi Cal readiness served on the Zimble team. In the May i edition of . Medicine Magazine he defended eur com s ability to handle medical emergencies. Bases from Page 1 has enjoyed . Support. On a lopsided 85 9 vote it declared the results of the feb. 7 election were marked by such widespread fraud that they cannot be considered a fair reflection of the will of the people of the Senate majority Leader Bob Dole r kan., questioned later at a National press club luncheon replied with a qualified yes when asked whether Marcos should share Power with Corazon Aquino who he claims to have Defeated. But he declined to Back an immediate cutoff of . Aid. I would like at least to wait until or. Habib gets Back Dole said. On tuesday sen. James r. Sasser d tenn., introduced legislation to Block the $150 million in remaining . Economic and military Aid the Philippines is due to receive by sept. 30. On the House Side rep. Stephen j. So Larz d-n.y., said wednesday he had reached a kind of agreement in principle with the chairmen of the House and Senate foreign affairs committees to put this year s unspent . Security assistance and j 197.7 million requested for fiscal 1987 into an escrow account. Solarz said under the agreement with rep. Dante Fascell d-fla., and sen. Rich Ard Lugar r-lnd., the funds would be re leased with the establishment of a legitimate government in the Philippines that has the Confidence of the filipino Lugar who headed a . Election observer team to the Philippines later told an East asian affairs subcommittee headed by Solarz that Marcos is not fit to run the philippine Economy and that longstanding . Ties with the filipino people create an obligation for . Action. Our goal must be to provide assistance where it is most needed and not deliver them into the hands of their enemies Lugar said. Lugar said the result of the election was incredible and that the final tallies have no relevance at sen. Bill Bradley and rep. Robert g. Torricelli both new Jersey democrats said wednesday they will introduce legis lation calling for economic sanctions against the Philippines aimed at driving Marcos out of office. Dole has introduced a Resolution mean while calling on the Pentagon to promptly undertake a study of where . Military forces might be relocated if they were with Dollar from Page 1 make matters worse instead of Dollar has fallen about 30 percent against other currencies in the past year. Volcker said that is about As far As the Dollar should drop even though some top Reagan administration officials including Treasury Secretary James Baker have suggested recently that further declines might be beneficial. The fact that inflation rates remain relatively Low and interest rates Are stable Volcker said supports arguments against any modifications in the monetary course the Federal Reserve Board has followed for the past year. He said the Board in its closed door meeting last week decided to make no significant change in monetary policy Nei ther tightening nor loosening its grip on the Money Supply and on interest rates. Some securities analysts had predicted the fed might lower slightly the interest rate it charges to member Banks. Volcker said the fed s policy makers agreed to keep for 1986 the same targets for growth in the nation s Basic Money sup ply measure called my and based on currency in circulation and in checking accounts that prevailed through the last six months of 1985. The Range of growth has been 3 percent to 8 percent. Even though Money Supply growth was near 12 percent last year far above the fed s own targets Volcker dismissed the importance of that increase. He said other factors including relatively stable interest rate and the Lack of fast growth in other secondary Money Supply indicators worked against attaching too much significance to my growth. That put him clearly at Odds with Beryl Sprinkel chairman of the White House Council of economic advisors and budget director James c. Miller 111, who have criticized the fed for failing to Clamp Down on my growth claiming it will produce More inflation. Not so Volcker said. We have had a recurring difference of perspective. All things considered the bulge in my was the least of All evils he said. Volcker said the drop in the Dollar poses a far More serious threat of re igniting inflation than did the recent increase in the Money Supply. Volcker also disclosed that the fed is experimenting with the possibility of a new Money measure to complement the current measures. It would be called my stand ing for Money like my it would measure the nation s Basic Money Supply but it would do it with a Complex formula that would give More weight to certain types of accounts and transactions than to others. Adm. Moreau meets greek military chiefs drawn from Clark and Subic Bay. While Shultz look an exceptionally Tough stance toward Marcos both he and Secre tary of defense Caspar w. Weinberger opposed any immediate curtailment of Ameri can Aid. We should t be doing anything about Aid Levels right at this moment Shultz told the budget committee testifying on the administration s proposed fiscal 1987 for eign Aid budget. 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 we cannot support Weinberger told the House for eign affairs committee. Weinberger and Shutlz offered Assur ances that the administration would make judgments about . Policy toward the Philippines after Habib returns. The Veter an Diplomat is meeting with a wide spec Trum of people in Manila including opposition candidate Aquino and roman Catholic Cardinal Jaime sin. We feel we have on our hands a very difficult and delicate situation Shultz said. We Don t want to jump at it with precipitous temperatures february ii l he 63 u w by 74 34 60 u 60 w m 4233 Europea i Featner i add m Athens Greece a . Adm. Arthur Moreau nato s new commander for Southern Europe met with greek Mili tary officials wednesday one Day after Greece announced it was ending a yearlong Boycott of Alliance activities. Moreau had talks with Deputy defense minister Antonis Drosso yanks As Well As the chiefs of the greek army Navy and air Force. He was to visit the greek first army Headquarters in the Northern City of Larissa thursday before leaving for Naples. The government said tuesday that National Flag merchant ships would participate in a nato map exercise in the Mediterranean sea and Atlantic Ocean in april. Greece dropped out of Alliance Maneu vers a year ago because of tensions with neighbouring nato member Turkey Over the militarization of the Northern Aegean Island of lemnos. Nato has refused to include lemnos in military War games be cause of the dispute. The government said the april nato exercise is unrelated to the lemnos Issue and that Greece is participating in it be cause it serves our National Greece dropped out of the Alliance s Mili tary Wing following Turkey s invasion of Cyprus in 1974, but returned in 1980, socialist Premier Andreas Papandreou was elected in 1981 pledging to pull Greece out of nato. M Savuno Binm. Browtt m 4un4pmcommumd, p n a pm main. M 25 �32 34 31 a a 23 324 b 41 34 Moko i � m ?�jo,r57 50 a Nouv a e supp Tol by a of Molly Cloudy Al Cloudy i
