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AS WITH the rest of the econ- omy, it is difficult to discern just how and why medical bills have risen so sharply. But many observers claim that the Ameri- can method of practicing medi- cine is at fault., "In the American, or fee-for- service system, there is a lot of r'oom for potential abuses," ex- plains Pierce. "Patients pay doctors for doing things for them, as opposed to paying them for their help in general. We pay for procedure in medi- cine." Maidlow calls this type of practice "defensive medicine," and explains, "A doctor orders tests so he doesn't miss any- thing." ORDERING A battery of tests increases the patient's final bill in addition to the doctor's fee, but it protects a physician from possible malpractice suits, which have also risen sharply in the past few years. "Doctors tend to take the total approach," DeWitt com- ments. "They give the complete medical w o r k o u t and run through all possible origins of the illness. Then they decide which of a number of likely or not so likely diseases it could Ibe." He says the English system, which takes a more s -lective approach, is cheaper and usual- ly more comfortable for the patient. "THEY RELY on pysical diagnosis, questioning, and phy- POTTER'S GUILD 74 hriilma6 Sun. Dec. 8 9 o.m.-3 p.m. 201 Hill Street Ann Arbor OKMMMM OMMMUM sical exams instead of medical tests," he asserts. Other factors contributing to high medical costs include mal- practice insurance rates, in- creased prices of medical sup- plies, and of course, inflatian. Hospitalization rates have a.so risen dramatically, for many of the same reasons but with odd- ed pressure from wages. "SEVENTY per cent of our hospital costs are personnel," Maidlow says. "Ten years ago the average wage was $2.00 an hour. Now the wage is ever $4.50 an hour. Hospital costs are rising because workers get paid union rates." Maidlow maintains that St. Joseph's is also feeling the cost squeeze. "We lose half a million a year, because we charge cur patients what it costs us," he claims. VERA HIRSCHMAN, a nurse at University Hospital, suggests the hospital could cut its costs by instituting procedural re- forms. "Instead of hospitalizing peo- ple for tests, it would be 1heaper to keep them as outpatients in- stead," she says. "And there is so much waste - unused paper, charts, paper clips, all get thrown away. If they were kept. it would do something." Eventually it becomes a vi- cious circle. The price of health care continues to rise, and sick people begin to postpone that visit to the doctor until they be- come seriously ill. Then they appear at the emergency rooms, where treat- ment is even more expensi,;P and puts a greater strain on both the patients and the health care system. JOHN M DIRECTOR 0 ILLINOIS STATE PSY CHICAGO "THE DRUG TR PSYCH IATRI DECEM MENTAL HEALTH RES SEMINAR SERIES r TEA: 3:15 pr.m., 2059 MHRI SEMINAR: 3:45p.m., 1057 KON ICHIKAWA'S BURMESE H A strong anti-war film from. of individual and collectivei Haldeman, prosecution clash WASHINGTON (P) - Former audible. The jury had not heard man and Ehrlichman. "Is there President Richard Nixon offered the tape of that conversation any way you can use cash?" to make $200,000 or $300,000 and it had not been made public Ehrlichman: "I don't think available to H. R. "Bob" Hal- previously. so." deman and John Ehrlichman for "Let me ask you this," Nixon H LDEMAN: "I don't think legal and family expenses said. "Legal fees will be sub- so when they were leaving the stantial . . . but there is a way Nixon then said there was "as White House, the Watergate we can get it to you and - much I think as 200 thousand cover-up jury was told yester- two or three hundred thousand dollars there's available in '74 day. dollars. . I know the prob-'cmagaled" "No strain," Nixon said. The lems with families and all the campaignredy." mny "o'tcm out rest. Just let me handle it." At the trial, Ben-Veniste ask- money "doesn't come outta rs.m ed Haldeman what it was that me"Assistant Prosecutor Ri- Ehrlichman replied, "Let'sedHteanw titasht hard Ben Vnistrdicorteitrndhs etnecessary, compounded the problem - chad Bn-Vnise dsclsedthewai an se ifit' neessry, whether it was "all the money offer and asked whether the but Nixon persisted: mone wold omeow e "ro- "YOU WILL find that you paid to the defendants over the money would someho we "pro- have to do it in cash ...that year?" vided by persons who were giv-eto ADMN nwrd N en favored treatment over the you got a civic, you got a gov- HALDEMAN answered, "No years " ernment duty." sir, that's not true." "I CAN recall a general con- Eight days later, on April 25, The cross-examination will be Hadean Nixon raised the point again. finished today, and Ehrlich- rsain lik tatp t"Let me ask you-this," he said man's lawyers will begin to put said. In a transcript of the tape in a conversation with Halde- on their defense. recorded conversation, Nixon____________ says "I never intended to use the money at all." He said he had told his friend Charles "Bebe" Rebozo to "be sure that people . . . who have contributed money over the contributing years are favored . . . and he's used it for the purpose of getting things out, paid for in check and STUTTGART, West Germany ' Speaking to reporters after all that sort of thing. (Reuter) - French Philosopher visiting Andreas Baader, who The "it" in that conversation Jean - Paul Sartre said yester-|has staged a hunger strike for apparently referred to the fund day that conditions under the last 84 davs of his imprison- Nixon had mentioned. which urban guerrillas are be- ment, the existenti!list philoso- HALDEMAN and Ehrlichman, ing held in West German pri- pher said Baader looked "like both defendants in the Water- sons are intended to make the a tortured man spoilt by hun- gate cover-up trial, resigned as prisoners unable to defend ger." Nixon's top aides on April 30, themselves, drive them mad or He said Baader, a convicted 1973. The first conversation kill them. arsonist and co-leader of the about money was on April 17 I ~ " Ba ader - Meinhoff Guerrilla that year, with Nixon saying: group, was very weak and thin, "I know the problems with C oIh lafnlooked wrinkled and' was kept families and all the rest. Just Y i with other prisoners in a white let me handle it." cell where the light was left Haldeman, still on the witness on 24 hours a day. stand after four days, admitted den esThere were only three expla- the offer was made several nations for this kind of treat- times but said he and Ehrlich- ment, Sartre said: man didn't accept it. He said Thi e parrsesar he resented the implication that "he prisoners are to be was 'being left with the jury. (Continued from Page 1) made unable to defend them- BEN - VENISTE then read there were widespread misuse, s eves, or driven mad or left to from a transcript of the April but it would be the student that d 17 conversation, part of it in- was guilty of plagiarism, not Sartre, 69, said Baader had us." tried to create a new society. Lincoln claimed that all re- "He has honestly tried to turn DAVIS search sent out by the company principles into facts" - even is stamped with a copyright if one thought that such action F RESEARCH seal and camera reduced so as 'was wrong, Sartre said. CHIATRIC INSTITUTE not to be in a form suitable for Dr. Klaus Croissant, one of . ILLINOIS direct submission to a course. the guerrilla group's defense eEATMENT OF also maintained that all 'lawyers, claimed at the press DISORDERS,, customized research is stamp- conference that five defend- ed with a large red seal across ants who were still on hunger A B ER 5 every page. strikes in other West German SEARCH INSTITUTE However, Ziebarth did not jails were in "critical condi- seem.to think that the stamped tion and close to death." seals and the camera reduction Sartre had insisted on seeing 1MHRI would totally exempt the com- Baader to learn his political parry from responsibility, views. 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