Health Manpower Development and Rural Services

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Last year at the 25th National Conference in San Francisco, Dr. Merlin K. DuVal, then Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs, concluded his report by saying that "solutions to rural health problems can be found. In turn, government will do its part."1 Recent federal priority and budget shifts, however, suggest a prior question and answer. Government—who? The government is you. You recall the oft-quoted statement in Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural Address: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." Our country is vast: it was not clear to many just how that noble purpose could be put into practice. The new federalism makes the idea much clearer—"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask rather what you can do for yourself." Laws are not intrinsically good; they represent the breakdown of community and social process and indicate the

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