July 17, 1975 - Migrant workers face issues at local health clinics due to lack of funds. Flooding during the year may have resulted in higher instances of respiratory and intestinal diseases.
October 1, 1975 - The frequency of claims is the most alarming aspect of malpractice turmoil. Adverse drug reaction, patients' unrealistic expectations and loss of job rather than negligence are the reasons for many suits, as is the state's tort system, so says a Mr. Burnswag, testifying before a state subcommittee on malpractice.
October 4, 1975 - A Home for the Weekend program focusing on public health. Segments include success in battling small pox disease, followed by speeches from Dean of University of Texas School of Public Health, and author Ruth Sidel, at annual meeting of Minnesota Public Health Association.
October 10, 1975 - Dr. Christian Barnard, famous heart transplant surgeon, talks briefly about his novel whose protagonist is a heart surgeon. He says one point of the book was to bring out racial discrimination and segregation in medicine, petty-apartheid (petit-apartheid?), in South Africa. He talks about having received threats due to his challenging the white ideology in South Africa, where the white minority fears they?ll lose everything they?ve built there without the apartheid government structure. They?ve seen what has happened in other African countries. South Africa represents western civilization in Africa, and competition is based on your ability to compete in that environment, where it?s natural the white man would do better.
October 13, 1975 - Senator John Milton says Michigan people, particularly key legislators, regard the nursing home industry as a public utility because the amount of money from public funds going into the industry is enormous, and the taxpaying public has an interest greater than with normal commercial ventures. Another reason is a lot of old people who need protection, a responsibility and concern of state in terms of public health and safety. In many cases the homes are being bought through use of public funds and federally guaranteed mortgage money, with fees put on the reimbursement system. Dues paid to associations who hire lobbyists for the industry are being passed on to the public.
October 13, 1975 - Reporter summarizes findings of Senate subcommittee on nursing homes trip to Michigan to look at how nursing homes are regulated there. Among their ideas were that state's variable reimbursement favoring smaller businesses over larger chains that are primarily real estate ventures. Sen. John Milton talks about what the committee discovered,
October 31, 1975 - Julian Bond, Georgia politician, talks about his political beliefs. Julian Bond talks about concessions that adherents to the new politics might demand from candidates in 1976. Included: Income and wealth redistribution with a tax restructure to reduce disparity between the needy and the greedy. Elimination of poverty through program of real employment. Education to dignify vocational aa well as academic training. Free adequate health care for each American financed through the national treasury and not through profit-making insurance companies. Control of monopolies. Municipal ownership of vital services. Talks about Americans as two-party people, variations in political parties and the role of independent voters. He speaks at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN.
October 31, 1975 - Midday presents a broadcast of psychotherapist, author, and lecturer Dr. Rollo May speaking at Augsburg College. May’s address was titled "Awareness and Community."
February 2, 1976 - U.S. Senator Hubert H. Humphrey comments about Reserve Mining at a public meeting in Duluth. Audio also includes comments from a United Citizens for Clean Water and Air spokesman.
April 9, 1976 - On this Options program, a discussion between Author-anthropologist Margaret Mead and psychiatrist Roy Menninger, president of the Menninger Foundation, on the topic "Toward a Caring Society."