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Show Page 14 Thursday, May 17, 1979 ft krtSENIOR CITIZEN'S CORNER HELPFUL IDEAS FOR SUCCESSFUl RETIREMENT 1 Economics of the Aged sumers. Of food purchased In 1976, the median income for home consumption, they for those over 65 was $3,495. buy 13 per cent. Senior For a couple, it was $7,030. citizens purchase 20 per cent About 15 per cent of this of the non-prescription drugs country's elders live below bought in the United States, the poverty line. In 1970, Two years ago, the nation however, almost one- as a whole spent $120.4 quarter were below that billion on health care. On the line. As with society in average, those over 65 spent general, women and 3.5 times as much as others, minority group members Politically, senior citizens have less income when com- are having an increasing im-, im-, pared to the rest of the pact upon the nation. In a re-elderly re-elderly population. cent national election, they As marketing specialists cast 16 per cent of the votes are well aware, the elderly while comprising 15 per cent represent a major economic of the voting age population, market force in this country. Seniors vote in much higher Seniors spend a bit more on proportions than the under-housing, under-housing, food and medical 35 age group but somewhat care than younger con- lower than the 35-64 group. Liquor Warning Law Pushed By Hatch Senator Orrin G. Hatch has shepherded through the Senate a measure to require health warning labels on all "hard" alcoholic beverages, pursuant to a request from the 1977 Utah State Legislature. The measure, sponsored by Senators Hatch, Strom Thurmond, R-South Carolina, and Jacob Javits, R-New York, requires all alcoholic beverages containing con-taining more than 24 percent per-cent alcohol to carry the label, "Caution: Consumption Consum-ption of alcoholic beverages may be hazardous to your health." Passed as an amendment to the Comprehensive Com-prehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act's 1979 reauthorization, the whole proposal now goes to the House of Representatives for further consideration. Hatch is the ranking member of the Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Subcommittee Subcom-mittee which drew up the bill, and was floor manager of the bill. Another amendment, sponsored by Senators Hatch, Hat-ch, Pete Domenici, R-New Mexico, and John Melcher, D-Montana, establishes a center within the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to study alcoholism problems among American Indians and Alaskan Natives, to evaluate treatment programs, and measure the economic and social impact of the problems. Hatch told the Senate of Utah's experience with warning labels, going back to the introduction of a bill in the 1977 Legislature by then Rep. David C. Harvey, D-Pleasant Grove. The Legislature decided that affixing af-fixing labels to all liquor sold in Utah would be prohibitively expensive, and instead required the posting of warning signs where liquor is sold. The Legislature also memorialized the U.S. Congress to "examine into and pass legislation similar in nature to cigarette warning war-ning legislation to better inform in-form the public that the consumption of alcoholic beverages or beer may be hazardous to their health and endanger other people's lives." "Utah has led the way," Hatch told his colleagues. "Will the House and Senate of the United States follow this lead with some important impor-tant legislation to put warnings war-nings on liquor bottles? I say, 'Yes'...." The parent bill, S. 440, reauthroizes a 1970 act that established alcohol abuse and alcoholism research, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation in programs of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). The proposed law authorizes $650 million for fiscal years 1980, 1981, and 1982 to continue con-tinue programs in research, prevention and rehabilitation of victims of alcoholism and their families. Alcoholism and the Family was the subject of extensive hearings held by Senator Hatch and his senate colleagues on the Alcoholism Subcommittee in Salt Lake City in June of 1977. Kennedy Plan Better But..... The Utah Hospital Association Executive Vice President, Richard B. Kin-nersley, Kin-nersley, says he "welcomes Senator Edward Kennedy's (D-Mass) new approach to National Health Insurance as a more realistic, yet still unacceptable approach to health care for the citizens of Utah and the nation." "We perceive with the new Kennedy plan a movement toward the middle mid-dle by Senator Kennedy and for us that's healthy and it means he's heard our complaints com-plaints about the more socialized approach he has supported for the past ten years. However, the new plan is still much too expensive expen-sive and proposes to reorder the country's entire health care delivery and payment system in order to benefit a very small segment of the population which is not currently covered by a health care protection plan. 90 percent oi the U.S. population, according to HEW and Congressional research, is covered by Blue CrossBlue Shield, private insurance carriers, health maintenance organizations, Medicare or Medicaid. It, therefore, appears that the $32 billion Kennedy plan would topple the current system of health care which is obviously 90 percent effective in order to meet the needs of the other ten percent." Kinnersley continued, "Utah hospitals want to care for the other ten percent per-cent of the population and would welcome any kind of a program that would include in-clude them. The Utah Hospital Association is of the opinion that Senator Kennedy's time and resources resour-ces would be better spent in looking for a way to bring adequate health care to those in need rather than reordering the best health care system in the world." "One of the emotional appeals ap-peals of Senator Kennedy," concluded the Association official, "is that everyone is entitled to competent health care. Congress apparently agrees with the Senator. It passed legislation several years ago the HillBurton Act which makes it illegal to deny health care to anyone based on the patient's ability to pay. Even before the HillBurton Act Utah hospitals were writing off hundreds of thousands of dollars each year in charity care and they will continue to do so. Our goals are consistent with Senator Kennedy's. We too want adequate health care for everyone. Our differences dif-ferences center in the method of delivery and the probable disruption of health service under the Kennedy plan." Kids Are Prime Targets For Poison There were 22,487 serious poisonings in Utah last year. Seventy-five percent of the victims were children under six. Reducing those figures is the aim of an educational campaign conducted by the Intermountain Regional Poison Control Center and Skaggs Companies Inc., as part of National Poison Prevention Week (March 18-24). 18-24). With material provided by the Poison Control Center, Skaggs produced poison prevention booklets for free distribution through its 250 pharmacies in 22 states. The six-page, multicolored booklet lists common poisonous chemicals, plants and other agents and how to handle the toxic substances and any resultant poisonings. The campaign is part of a national poison prevention effort, according to Dr. Joseph C. Veltri, administrator ad-ministrator of the poison information in-formation service at University of Utah Medical Center. The theme is "Children Act Fast...So Can Poisons. Protect Your Children." "We have excellent educational materials written writ-ten specifically for the consumer," con-sumer," says Dr. Valtri. "The booklet is the best thing I've seen nationally." Dr. Veltri says the 500,000 booklets distributed by Skaggs and other material will increase public awareness of poisons and the danger to small children. The Poison Control Center is also working with the Utah Pharmaceutical Association to distribute poison prevention materials to all Utah pharmacies. The association encourages Utahns to obtain the material and discuss poison prevention with their pharmacist. phar-macist. "Children get poisoned because we don't protect their environment," declares Dr. Veltri. "Many accidental poisonings occur at homes being visited by small children, so all adults have to be conscious of the problem. Anyone can be poisoned or cause a poisoning." The Intermountain Regional Poison Control Center has the highest per capita utilization of any poison center in the country. In Utah, there are 21 calls per one thousand population. The figure in Salt Lake County is 37 calls per thousand residents. "Our 30,000 calls last year involved more than 22,000 acute poisonings. There is no way of telling how many others were never reported to the Poison Control Center," Cen-ter," adds Dr. Veltri. Poison information specialists at University Medical Center handle more than 80 percent of the poisonings without medical intervention. Dr. Veltri says theis greatly reduces the cost of medical treatment and anxiety for parents. The poison information service can be reached by calling (801) 581-2151. CONSUMER GUIDELINES Fuel & Money Saver Vanpooling is becoming increasingly popular. Vanpooling is an arrangement where up to 15 people share commuting costs in a passenger van. As a result, precious fuel can be conserved It is estimated that each vanpool can save approximately 5,000 gallons of gasoline each year. 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