For the past three years, I was privileged to serve as administrator of the Health Resources Administration, which was located within the Department of Health and Human Services. I assumed the position two months after Secretary Joseph Califano issued the proposed resource standards of the National Guidelines for Health Planning and the debate about the appropriateness of the standards had commenced. A few of my major responsibilities were to salvage those guidelines, to represent the Carter administration in its efforts to renew the legislation authorizing the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act, and to ensure the continued implementation of . . .