European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday july 31, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 better Blimp a photo workmen install lightweight Compo site panels on he passenger Compart ment of goofy new t new Blimp being  at the com tiny s Plant in Akron Ohio. The Blimp will be the first powered by Turboprop engines and Wilt be Tat of and carry More Passen Gers than current Goodyear blimps. Health care costs account for 10.7% of National output Washington a health care spending accounts Tor More than 10 per cent of tie Gross National product but anal Yiu a continuing efforts to control the costs Are beginning to change the Industry. The department of health and human services department reported that health care expenditure hit $425 billion in 1985, equal to 10.7 percent of the nation s total output and continued to climb Failer than Price in the rest of the Economy following a trend Sofai East 20 Yea re. Nevertheless analysts who prepare the report for Hess health care financing administration said there have been substantial changes in the health care Field As efforts continue to be made to curb the increases. That real growth of health spending has followed a fairly even path does not alter the fact that the Industry has under gone change they write in an article Tobe published this rail in the health care financing review. The authors Daniel Waldo Katha Rine Levit and Helen Lazenby said for example that private insurers have banished perhaps forever an unflinching Reliance on doctors to determine both proper care and the proper Cost of that care substituting outside objective review instead. The changes Are most remarkable in hospitals the analysts said. After rising at an average rate of 2,5 percent a Yea from 1967 to 1979, admissions to Community hospitals dropped 1 percent year Between 1980 and 1985. Hospital admissions for people under 65 began dropping in 1982, the analyst said while Hospital admissions for older people began falling in 1984. Surgery has open been cancelled be cause second opinions did not support its need and nursing Homes Home health agencies and clinics Are providing care which hospitals fwd to provide at higher costs. The authors say the Industry is in tur Moil As it struggles to define and claim its Market complicated by the role or government in financing More than 40 percent of the health care in the country. And by the need to balance financial con Cerns with medical ethics. The 10.7 percent of Gnu devoted to health care compared with 10.3 percent in 1984 and Only 5.9 percent in 1965, but the Rale of growth was the slowest in 20 years up Only 8.9 percent from 1984 s1390.2 billion. Of the j42s billion total. $371.4 Bil lion was spent on personal health care excluding such items As research an construction. Hospital care accounted for 45 per cent or si67 billion of the personal health care expenditures. Doctors took 22 percent or $83 billion and 9 percent or $35 billion was spent on nursing Home care. Medicare and medicaid the govern ment health insurance programs paid for 22 percent of All health care provide Din the United states during 1984, Accord ing to the report. All Federal programs combined accounted for 29 percent state and local governments paid 12 percent private insurance paid 31 percent and payments by Consumers covered 28 percent. Or. William Roper who Heads the financing administration said the slower growth in medical spending was due largely to the improved economic Cli mate under this  Man killed in game of Chicken Valley Park to. Up a 19-year-old Man Chester Man who had been drinking Beer with friends attempted a game of Chicken with an 85-car train and was struck and killed by the locomotive according to police. Jeffrey m. Schob was pronounced dead Early tues Day at the St. Louis county urgent care Center about two hours after being struck by the Union Pacific train the county medical examiner s office said. The Accident occurred at about 10 . Monday three quartets of a mile East of Missouri Highway 141, Southwest of St. Louis. Police said Scholz and five friends were Silling on the Railroad tracks when they saw the train approach. The train conductor Ted Spitz of Edwardsville 111.,and Engineer Thomas Bloodshaw of St. Louis told police they saw the youths line up on the tracks As the train closed in on them. The youths stood straddling the tracks and then jumped Clear one by one. Police said Schotz did no make it in time and was knocked More than 20 feel Railroad employees told police that Scholz s friends saw the Accident but climbed into two cars and fled. Authorities said the conductor was unable to Slop the train which was travelling at about 45 Mph. Police said they found a lot of fresh empty Beer cans at the scene and Schotz s body St yelled of Beer. Police Are investigating the Accident. They said one Man who claimed to be a member of the group had contacted them voluntarily. They said however thai his account differed drastically from the conductor s. No More free lunches for acc Washington a free lunches have slopped at the Federal communications commission. From now on lobbyists will not be Able to buy lunch for commission employees and an after work Beer Pur chased by a reporter who coven the commission will be forbidden. The Issue came up when commissioner Patricia Dis Dennis was sworn in recently and asked for a briefing on the commission s i hic rules. Acc general counsel Jack d. Smith discovered thai acc policies which have not been updated recently say no one can take anything from anyone hav ing business before the Agency. So chairman Mark s. Fowler said this week he would no longer accept any meals or gifts and the commission s Bureau chiefs followed suit said William a. Russell jr., the commission s director of congressional and Public affairs. Smith who is now reviewing commission policies to make sure they Are in line with government wide Stan Dards said an acc speaker Ai a luncheon could eat the lunch or have a cocktail at a reception that was part of convention. No one at the acc has an expense account for representation expenses meaning they Don t have a official Way to pay for such meals. A housing and Urban development department spokesman said he recently received an office of government ethics Booklet published in March emitted How to keep out of trouble ethical conduct for Federal employees in  the 12-Page pamphlet says ethical considerations bar acceptance of anything of monetary value from anyone who has or is seeking business from the government or would be affected by an action of the Agency. On food and beverage the ethics office guidelines allow acceptance of meals at business conferences and other occasions where there is no reasonable Opportunity to  faulty Heater linked to crash of Nelson plane Washington up the fiery plane crash that killed Singer Rick Nelson and six other people last Winter followed attempts by the Crew to Deal with an overtaxed healer documents from a Federal safety pane showed tuesday. The National transportation safely Board investigating the dec. 31, 1985, crash near de Kalb Texas released a report that dealt at some length with the Heater aboard the dc-3 aircraft. The Board has not ruled on the cause of the Cabin fire and subsequent crash. Though medical reports said Nelson 45, had cocaine in his body at the time of death there was no evidence in tuesday s report thai cocaine free Basing in which the drug is smoked May have Ted to the Accident. Killed with Nelson were his Fiancee and five member of his Stone Canyon band who were bound for Dallas from gunner Vitie Ala. The Pilot and co Pilot survived. The overheat Light would come on in the cockpit the Crew would turn the Heater off wait for a while and then turn the Heater Back on again the report said. La also quoted the co Pilot As saying at some Point. Pilot Brad rank decided to go aft of the Lail to see if there was anything he could do to gel the Heater to function correctly. He signalled to me to turn it on i did t turn it on. 1 was getting nervous. I did t think that we should be Messing with that Heater in  the Heater was turned on about four minutes before smoke was noticed aboard. The report quoted the co Pilot As saying the Cabin of the aircraft through the windows appeared to be an  the report also said rank told the co Pilot following the crash dont Tell anyone about the