Phase-out
for health
planning
possible
By JENNY MILLER
The Reagan administration's budget proposals
may include a phase-out of Michigan's eight state
health care planning agencies, possibly resulting in a
future hike in health care costs and a loss of con-
sumer input to medical care planning, according to
state health care planning officials.
While most of the funding for the health care plan-
ning agencies comes from the federal government,
some funding is provided by the state, officials said.
BOB STAMPFLY, health planning consultant for
the Michigan office of Health and Medical Affairs,
said the Reagan administration has already rescin-
ded some health service agency funds for the current
fiscal year, and the proposed 1982 budget does not in-
clude any money for the regional agencies.
The proposed phase-out will occur by 1983, when
federal monies for state health planning will also be
eliminated, Stampfly said.
"It looks like this is it-when the money goes, we're
out of business," said Ralph Kingzett, public affairs
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spokesman for the Comprehensive Health Planning
Council of Southeastern Michigan. "If we are gone,
the local input to planning would be gone,,too."
KINGZETT SAID CHPC-SEM has enough money
to operate for at least another year.
State health planning agencies like CHPC-SEM are
charged with reviewing proposed hospital im-
provements to establish whether there is a real need
in the area for these improvements. The prevention
of medical service duplication in an area, a
requirement established by state law, helps keep
health care costs down.
Consumer volunteers, medical providers, and local
government officials have input to decisions made by
these agencies, and their recommendations are sent
to the Michigan Department of Public Health, for the
final decisions. The Department usually follows the
agency recommendations, said Kingzett.
FOR EXAMPLE, Kingzett said, "every time the
University Hospital wants to spend more than
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films shown on a given night grows, the
number of people attending each film
shrinks.
"There is a definite glut on the
market," Kaplan confirmed. "There
are more groups showing films.
MICHIGAN'S current economic
troubles may also be contributing to the
attendance problems of the film
cooperatives. "People aren't working,
so they don't have the money to spend
on films," said Cinema II's house
manager Frank Uhle.
The film cooperatives frequently
supply movies for the University.
History of Art professor Diane Kirk-
patrick said, "The cooperatives are an
important part of the Ann Arbor com-
munity as well as the University. If
anything happened to the co-ops it
would be very hard to restructure their
role in the University."
Beaver said, "Attendance will vary
according to the title. Cooperatives
usually lose money on the films being
shown for classes. They have to make
up for this by showing more profitable,
commercial films at other times."
ALL THE cooperatives, except
Mediatrics, are financially independent
of the University and receive no
University aid. Even some of the
equipment used by the cooperatives in
University auditoriums is paid for
solely by the co-ops.
As to whether the current financial
troubles will continue to plague the
cooperatives, Yanksevitch said, "Right
now we're all just trying to figure out
what's going on. We have no way of
knowing if this will continue."
Daily staff writer Pam Fickinger
filed a report for this story.
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