State audit flags high admin costs in California prepaid plans
California health plans for Medi-Cal recipients show only 48 percent of 56.5 million dollars paid to PHP contractors went to health care services. The rest funded salaries, profits, and administration. Auditor general urged 75 percent minimum health care spend and transfer of PHP authority to the Department of Finance.
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UPI
State Auditor General
Department of Health
Auditor General
Vincent Thomas
D-San_ Pedro
Joint Legislative Audit Committee
State Department of Health
Thomas
Los Angeles
PHP
PHP Contractors
Department of Finance
Sierra Club chief says environmental movement leaner and stronger
Eugene Oregon Michael McCloskey executive director of the Sierra Club says the environmental movement is leaner but stronger and moving forward. He spoke at the Earth Week conference at the University of Oregon noting limits of resources and the need to end planned obsolescence while polls show broad public support despite energy-crisis blame shifted to government and oil.
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Eugene, Ore
UPI
The
Sierra Club
Michael McCloskey
University of Oregon
McCloskey
Seattle
Galbraith warns against tax cuts amid inflation at USC
Los Angeles economist John Kenneth Galbraith says tax cuts are ill advised during runaway inflation. He contrasts liberal lawmakers push for tax relief with his view that large corporations blur traditional economic rules. In Chicago, a JAMA study notes daily 100 calorie joggers may lose little weight, while 3500 calories equal one pound.
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UPI
John Kenneth Galbraith
Congress
Galbraith
USC
India
Kennedy
Chicago
The
Journal of the
American Medical Association
Journal
Air Force Academy
Senator resigns from marijuana panel over liberalizing stance
Republican Senator H L Richardson resigns from the Senate Select Committee on the Control of Marijuana citing a panel tilt toward liberalizing pot. Chairman George Moscone proposes SB2157 to lessen penalties for possessing under three ounces, a move Richardson calls a dangerous shift ignored expert testimony. Other members are Sens Beilenson and Biddle.
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UPI
H.L Richardson
Senate Select Committee On the
Richardson
U.S. Senate
George Moscone
San Francisco
Arcadia Republican
Moscone
Anthony Beilenson
Los Angeles
W. Craig Biddle
Riverside
Nation's Weather Ranges Across Regions
Showers and thunderstorms pounded the East and Gulf coasts as a cold front stretched from western New York through Alabama and southern Texas. Light snow fell in northern Michigan with warnings in lower Michigan. High pressure brought clear skies from the Plains into Canada while the Pacific Northwest stayed cloudy and temperatures ranged from 78 in Phoenix to 29 in Marquette.
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Hancock
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Reinecke says Kennedy would gain from prosecution
Lt. Gov. Ed Reinecke says Kennedy would benefit most from his Watergate perjury case, blocking a Republican from winning California and aiding Kennedy’s presidential bid. He notes Jaworski has no motive, hopes for a venue change, and aims to start trial soon after the May 13 pre trial date with California primary looming.
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San Diego
UPI
Ed Reinecke
Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
Reinecke
Kennedy
Leon) Jaworski
California
Cranston slams Nixon plan to win Senate support
Sen. Alan Cranston declares any Nixon tactic to line up 34 conservative votes would insult the Senate and conservatives while obliquely predicting impeachment votes would be based on evidence, not ideology. He notes conservatives fear Nixon could empower a liberal, radical Congress in 1976. A separate bill to regulate major oil firms by the state utilities commission was rejected 42 to 1, with Meade to seek reconsideration.
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UPI
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Senate
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D-Calif
Cranston
White House
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Sacramento
State Public Utilities Commission
Assembly Commerce and Public Utilities Committee
Ken Meade
Berkeley
Meade
California court allows home picketing by domestic workers
The California Court of Appeal ruled that in some cases servants with labor grievances may picket an employer's home, balancing labor rights against a homeowner’s right to privacy. The decision, involving AFL-CIO Laborers Local 1184 and Walter Annenberg over Palm Springs gardeners, may prompt further appeals.
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UPI
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U.S
Great Britain
Afl-Cio
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Annenberg
California Supreme Court
Union
Palm Springs
Nixon
Spiro Agnew
Gerald Ford
Prince Charles
England
Robert Gardner
California Assembly leaders pick Moretti or Flournoy for governor
Assembly Speaker Robert Moretti is seen as likely to overtake Edmund G. Brown Jr. for the Democratic nomination while GOP Controller Houston I. Flournoy is favored to win the Republican nomination over Lt. Gov. Ed Reinecke. Brown warns of costly primary fights that could hurt Democrats in November. Reinecke faces trial on perjury charges connected to ITT financing discussions.
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UPI
California Assembly
Assembly
Robert Moretti
GOP
Houston I. Flournoy
Reinecke
Assemblyman
Brown
California
Beverly
Flournoy
Reagan warns state employees on possible strike
Gov. Ronald Reagan warned state employees they risk their jobs if they strike following the California State Employees Association noting strike action under consideration. He said public employees have no right to strike and urged against it. The association backs higher raises, citing the Personnel Board's recommended increases of $45 million for 1974-75 versus the union demand of $100 million.
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UPI
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California State Employes Association
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CSEA
John Matheny
State Personnel Board
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