I keep telling the HEW people about the problems of these hospitals and HEW tells me they have no authority to help. We must give HEW the authority. If provisions are not made for adequate funding so that hospitalization programs can care for the medically indigent and migrants under the act then the entire area suffers. We stand a chance of having to close the doors of hospitals. stripping them of primary services. In the end everybody suffers. Our people are doing everything they possibly can locally to assist in the migrant situationbut a doctor seeing 60 patients a day cannot see 20 of them free or 30 of them free. He still has to pay rent and meet an overhead. Likewise a parent of three children earning $10 a day will do everything possible to avoid a doctor bill or a drug bill. He cannot pay that bill so his family does without care. I think it is time that we take a close and careful look to taking care of these situationsthe money will be spent somewhereI am not advocating making money available so that people can hold a fine job but I am urging that we try to do something for these people who are not as fortunate as we and to try to help the hospitals with funded inhouse programs so that they can help the migrant and the indigent and stay in business to help us when we require their fine facilities. I thank you.
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