Hospitals Back Reagan Medicare Payment Plan Faces Checks
Washington AP officials welcome the proposed Medicare prospective payment plan that fixes hospital fees by diagnosis. Hospitals would receive pre set fees, with adjustments for teaching costs and local wages. Critics warn about data quality and the risk of overreliance on diagnostic related groups. Congress aims for a national rollout by next Oct with states given extra time to transition.
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Washington
Reagan Administration
Health and Human Services
Richard
Schweiker
Congress
Medicare
Alex McMahon
American Hospital Association
McMahon
Michael Bromberg
Federation of American Hospitals
Dole GOP Messenger Campaigning Across Nation in October
Sen. Bob Dole plans more than 60 campaign stops through October to back Republican House and Senate candidates in New Hampshire Iowa and other states. The trips may signal a run for the 1984 GOP presidential nomination while stirring concern among some Senate colleagues over campaign activity against incumbents.
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Bob Dole
New Hampshire
Iowa
Dole
House
Senate
Town
Campaign America
John Sharp
Kansas City
Missouri
Bill Emerson
Wendel Bailey
Kansas
GOP
Sam Hardage
Morris Kay
Wichita
Clearwater
Leavenworth
Lawrence
Topeka
Garnett
Johnson County
Robert Byrd
West Virginia
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
New York
Moynihan
Florence Sullivan
Byrd
Cleve Benedict
Sen
Mike Willard
Bole
Willard
Manhattan
Kan
West
Riker
Suspected Soviet Sub Evades Swedish Dragnet Near Hors Bay
Swedish reports say warships are using magnetic homing devices and smart torpedoes in Hors Bay to force a suspected Soviet bloc submarine to surface. Officials warn of a possible unmanned underwater vessel able to elude Sweden’s cruisers and helicopters indefinitely. The sub was found near Muska base, a top secret facility near the southern Stockholm archipelago, after a week of attempts to force it up.
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Berga Naval Base
Sweden
Hors Bay
National Defense Staff
Muska
Stockholm
Navy
Cay Holmberg
Dagens Nyheter
Svenska Dagbladet
Karlskrona
Soviet Union
Poland
Baltic
United States
West Germany
Denmark
Tass
Youth heroism fades as father dies after resuscitation
In Wilmington, 13 year old Mark Spencer again tried to save his father Philip C. Spencer, who died of his seventh heart attack in five years. Mark had previously been praised for driving his father to the hospital during a 1978 episode that revived him. Blanche Spencer said Mark did his best with mouth to mouth resuscitation, but the 57 year old man died at home.
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Prince Andrew
Koo Stark
Britain
Elizabeth II
Randy Andy
Daily Telegraph
Miss Stark
Emmanuelle
British Broadcasting Corp
Wilbur Stark
Wilmington
Philip C. Spencer
Mark
Spencer
Blanche Spencer
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