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I wonder if you might change your mind In view of this criticism you've been getting, I'm not going to change my mind at all. As a matter of fact, the facts and figures bear out that it's a perfectly simple thing we're doing that will make no

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change whatsoever with regard to the quality of service. The number of patients due to the new methods of treatment and the drugs has reduced has been reduced so drastically that I could give you one simple comparison. The average cost annual cost of keeping someone in an

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institution is $4800 a year. If we did not make this cut, the cost would immediately jump next year to $5700 which gives some idea that proportions it will remain at the present 4800 figure by affecting these reductions. What about Steven Deal? Who says that this is

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another step back into the snake pit? Well, um, he hasn't had very much time to read the figures. Uh, we're not going back into the snake pit is a matter of fact. We more or less lead the nation with regard to our treatment in these in

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these particular cases, and we're going to keep that preeminence. But I don't think the people of California should be required to maintain employees on the salary are on the payroll when there is absolutely no justification or no longer any need for keeping them.