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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, Sept. 18, 1985
Nation/World
Entertainers pitch in to help AIDS victims
United Press International
LOS ANGELES - Organizers of a new entertainment industry anti-AIDS committee yesterday announced plans for a large rock concert and telethon, billed "Aid for AIDS," to raise money to find a cure for the deadly disease.
Definite plans for the event were not disclosed, but a spokeswoman said the concert was tentatively scheduled for March in the Los Angeles Coliseum and may be televised nationwide.
"It will be a rock concert with a lot of other celebrities interspersed with the music," said Marilyn Sharon, an independent producer who is heading up a talent search for the concert.
"It will be on the scale of Live Aid, with many major music stars, and I think it definitely will generate a lot of dollars." she said.
Actor Brian Patrick Clarke, who portrays Dr. Grant Andrews on the "General Hospital" television soap opera, joined the news conference, saying he represents those in "Middle America" who desperately want to see the AIDS threat end.
Clarke noted that AIDS "is not just the gay community's problem, it's not just a gay disease."
He then added, "But even if it were exclusive to the gay community, that's a considerable faction of our society and a considerable portion of mankind as a whole, and I think it's very important that we recognize the fact that there is a need for the research and ultimately, hopefully, for a cure."
Also attending was Tom Procter, who billed himself as "the token person with AIDS on this committee," and said he represents those suffering from the disease who have not given up hope.
Protere said that he had been diagnosed as having the deadly disease for about a year but that his health is fine now.
He said the money raised would be used both to support people with the illness and to pay for worldwide research into the cause of the disease.
"AIDS is a human problem," he added. "We can lick this thing if we work together."
Law limits AIDS insurance
United Press International
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — To combat a rising number of health claims by AIDS victims, Wisconsin's largest insurance companies may begin excluding coverage of the disease, company executives said yesterday.
computer. In an apparent first for the insurance industry, the officials said the exclusion might be necessary because of a new state law that makes it difficult to find out whether policyholders have acquired immune deficiency syndrome, which weakens the body's ability to fight infection and usually is fatal.
"It's a question of sound underwriting practices. We need to consider all the facts," said George Hardy, legislative counsel to Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. "We are permitted to obtain information about all other diseases and conditions. If we can't get information about one particular disease, then it is unfair to all others who submit the information.
"If we insure someone who has a short life expectancy, it will have an adverse effect on other policy holders or higher premiums under their dividends."
State legislation, approved in July, bars insurance companies from access to results of an AIDS virus test.
Amy Biderman, spokeswoman for
the Health Insurance Association of America, a Washington-based umbrella group for insurance companies, said she had heard of no firms in other states considering similar action, although California has a law similar to the Wisconsin statute. They are the only states with such laws.
"This is news to us," she said, although she added the association was in favor of insurance companies being allowed AIDS test results.
"We have said that the industry should have the right to use that test and many have said they want to use the test."
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