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Carrie Peter
"If you think that AIDS could never happen to you, then please listen to my story.
I thought AIDS was somebody else's problem, not mine. I was not a member of any high risk group. I lived in a very small town, I never used I.V. drugs or had a blood transfusion. I am a middle class, middle American, heterosexual female. Never believing for one moment that AIDS would ever touch my life, I donated blood., and on February 26, 1988, I learned that I was HIV positive. Everything about my life has changed and many of my dreams have been taken from me. Please don't take any chances. I don't want anyone else to take even one step in my shoes."
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Number of uninsured expected to rise
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Even though changes in the free market are bringing down some health care costs, one in five Americans under 65 could be without health insurance by the year 2000 unless the system is reformed, a Senate panel was told yesterday.
The failure of President Clinton's health-reform bill last year has put the issue on the backburner in Congress, but Democrats and Republicans said it could not be completely ignored.
"There are still big issues out there for us to address," said Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, chairwoman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee.
Washington economist William S. Custer told the panel that about 41 million Americans, or about 18 percent of the nation's people under 65, were without health care at any given time.
Since costs are projected to continue rising, and fewer employers—especially small businesses that don't benefit from large-scale buying power—are offering their workers health insurance, Custer said that in five years the number of under-65
"This figure just jumps out at us," said Sen. Paul Wellstone. D-Minn.
people without coverage would swell to 50 million.
Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., said a General Accounting Office study had shown that children of working poor people were most likely to suffer from lack of coverage. The study showed that 89 percent of children without insurance had at least one working parent.
"We're talking about working people out there trying to make ends meet and not to be on public assistance," Dodd said.
Kassebaum, while acknowledging that many people were finding it more difficult to find health insurance, said that the health reform debate last year had been a clear repudiation of heavy government intervention.
Letters she gets from Kansas, Kassebaum said, "encourage us to fix what is broken in the health care system without relying on big government solutions."
She cited government statistics indicating that enrollment in managed-care programs, such as health-maintenance organizations, has climbed from 58 percent in 1987 to 65
percent today among companies with 200 employees or more.
In addition, Kassebaum said that 1994 health care costs had dropped 1.1 percent from the year before, the first reduction in a decade.
Custer, however, said the Congressional Budget Office and private
researchers expected health costs to continue to rise as personal income increased in the coming years.
"As health care costs increase faster than income, it is likely that the erosion of employment-based health insurance will continue," Custer said.
hospital administration at the Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., said local, smaller companies and individuals also were joining regional networks in which risks are shared, bringing down the cost of premiums and extending coverage to more people.
The committee heard from large companies,such as Digital Corp.,who have used managed-care programs to bring down the costs of covering their employees.
"As health-care costs increase faster than income,it is likely that the erosion of employment-based health insurance will continue."
Glenn Potter, vice chancellor of
William S. Custer
Washington economist
The networks also stress less costly preventative and primary care.
"Health care reform is alive and well in the private sector," Potter said. Potter urged the committee to consider bringing managed-care principles to Medicare and Medicaid, which still are run along the fee-for-
service methods. He said such a change could save 8 percent in both programs.
"It works better than the old-fashioned, fragmented system we must pull away from," Potter said.
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