ADA News (Newspaper) - October 4, 1976, Chicago, Illinois American Dental Association News October 1976 HEW issues new health forward plan Theodore assistant secretary for US De of and Wel has issued the Forward Plan for Health for fiscal years This the third in a is an attempt to provide a framework within which the US Public Health Service can deal with pressing health issues development of new dis ease health care delivery and quality of Much of the Forward Plan is devoted to national health National health insurance is probably the most crucial and compelling issue facing the American health care system the report Even though fiscal im have made it inadvisable for the administration and Congress to pur sue legislation this recent public attitudes and debate suggest that NHI is an issue whose time has The report assumes that enactment of national health insurance will occur during the period covered by the For ward Plan 19781982 and lists several objectives that the federal government and other health planners must deal with in order to bring about a viable sys These objectives include universal and adequate financing for a comprehensive range of services and supplies financially economically and competitive health care industry quality assurance cost con and and responsible consumer choice among delivery sys and treatment The plan states that the major stumb Continued on Back Page Members of the Philadelphia County Dental Society participated in a recent health screening program sponsored by of The program ran for one each day being devoted to the screening of various types of On the day dental examinations were volunteer dental society members screened nearly 50 members of the Sylvan Morein Elkins reviews his notes on his examination of a With him are George Savitz Philadelphia Jack Neff presidentelect of the society Carole Hilde brand Philadelphia and Bruce Dordick also of Desmond of Boston College appointed executive vp vice president for university Bos ton has been named executive and secretary for the American Fund for Dental President Lloyd has received his bach elors degree from Boston College and some 20 years in joined the colleges staff to head its fund alumni and public relations He also served there as an officer of the school and as a member of its executive In 1956 he received an MBA degree from Syracuse and he has WVa bans junk food at public schools ROBERT f DESMOND West Virginia education department has instituted what is apparently the first statewide ban on nonnutritious snack foods in public school vending The replacement of junk foods and soft drinks with healthful such as canned soups and toasted soybeans and sunflower and is the result of a reso lution passed last year by the states board of the Dallas school board recently voted 54 to end a similar ban in that citys School officials say the prohibition hurt fundraising and had been criticized by par and students Seeking to quell criticism of the West Virginia department of education officials have suggested replacements for each prescribed item and have point ed out that the ban is in effect only dur ing school hours and does not apply to social or sports The although praised by physicians and has been not only by food manufacturers and vending machine but also by a number of school administra Many principals say that students will simply go elsewhere to buy junk food and soft thereby causing schools to lose muchneeded vending machine which totals as much as at some completed most of his course work toward a doctorate in business admin at Louis Prior to joining Boston Desmond was for devel at Bellarmine Louis from 1967 to He also has served as executive director of devel for La Moyne NY assistant to the Univer sity of in charge of fund alumni public and Continued on Back Page Senate passes health care Sept the Senate passed legislation introduced by Herman Talmadge DGa to step up ac to control fraud and abuse under federal health care The language was added as an amend ment to a measure already passed by the HR and was devel oped as a result of recent Senate hear An identical has been sored in the House by the chairmen of the commerce and ways and means health Hearings have been held by the commerce health sub The would establish an Office of Central Fraud and Abuse Control within the Department of and The office would have overall responsibility for coor and establishing policies with respect to the undertaking of activities designed to deal with fraud and abuse in federal health care pro The office also would initiate and conduct investigations respecting and potential fraud or abuse in such programs and assist state agencies in establishing and operating state and abuse Continued on Back Page Tax Reform Act includes provisions supported by ADA two years of debate and both houses of Congress passed the conference report on HR the Tax Reform Act of clearing the measure for an expected signature by the The House vote was 383 to 26 the Senate vote was 84 to The final ver sion represents the most significant tax since It will make important and significant changes in the Internal Revenue as well as extend cur rent lowered withholding rates through Dec Among its contents are three provi sions that the Association had supported throughout the development of the tax exemption for armed forces and National Health Service Corps scholarships a tax exclusion for cancel lation of student loans and a tax tion for unrelated business income de rived from trade Other provisions of the new tax Continued on Back Page