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Q:

Going back to the high blood pressure priviso, in the appropriation bill in the state legislature --

Lasker:

This bill if it passed would have provided only two million dollars, to be spent starting next April, April of 1980.

Q:

How did they anticipate it being used?

Lasker:

Well, it would be spent the way they're spending the 175 thousand dollars they have now, and 850 thousand dollars they have from the federal government. They give money in grants to agencies that are treating and screening people with high blood pressure.

Q:

I see.

Lasker:

And that's a very good way to do it.

Q:

Yes.

Lasker:

If you give money to, let's say Harlem Hospital to screen and treat people with high blood pressure, quite a few people get treated. It really is a matter of finding -- and they should give a lot of money to the Red Cross, who has the capacity to do it, and who is screening people with high blood pressure but not treating them.





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