MPR News Features are news segments created for various long-form programming, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, amongst others. Features run the gambit of interviews, reports, profiles, and coverage.
October 24, 1974 -
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October 29, 1974 - MPR’s Sam Ford reports on Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman boxing match held in Zaire, Africa. Ford visits Minneapolis Auditorium and interviews attendees present for a closed circuit viewing of fight hyped as “Fight of the Century.”
November 5, 1974 - Floridation amounts to "forced medicine" according to Jack Graham, the city of Brainerd's attorney on floridation issues. Dr. Keknober of Minnesota Board of Health supports floridation and says it's not harmful. Brainerd is fighting a state mandate to floridate all public water.
November 5, 1974 - The choice between two or more HMOs gives employees wider choice in doctors. In 1972 there was one HMO, now there are 6 in the Twin Cities area, 8 in the entire state, making Minnesota second in the nation in numbers.
November 5, 1974 - A proposed law states that any employer employing 25 or more employees should be offered membership in an HMO in the employees' geographic area as long as it's a federally qualified HMO. Presently there are none.
November 5, 1974 - HMOs concentrate on doing more procedures outpatient, saving money which is then used to improve patient care, says Ruth Stack, director of the Twin Cities Citizen League's Health Care Development Project.
November 5, 1974 - Senator Hubert Humphrey talks about price fixing in U.S. industry. The grocery chains have had a 125 percent increase in profits. The Federal Trade Commission has not done anything.
November 5, 1974 - Senator Hubert Humphrey says the multi-national oil "cartels" have a strangle hold on the Republican administration. They have removed price controls. John Sawhill's forced resignation from the Federal Energy Commission was because he wanted to change these conditions, says Senator Hubert Humphrey.