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Show 10 The Salt L: ake Tribune OPINION 1999 Tuesday All Gun LawsWill Be Ignored by a Society That Does Not Value Laws a: ! ife WASHINGTON ie-breaki senate After casting the Road, didn't appear to get sponded to Keene '§ testimony ey elemei access to gu CAL THOMAS vote on bill that would add new restrictions on gun sales, Vice President Al Gore proclaimed the measut a turning point for our coun try.” The bill isn’t a turning point, but the school shootings the latest last week in y suburban Atlanta school could be. s your FATHER AND | FEEL THAT WE SHOULD ALL GET TOGETHER MORE OFTEN {ANDJUST TALK... When faced with a matterof principle, u ti on to do whatever is expedient. Editorial ' ren't much better. The Washington Post intoned: “There could be no shoot ings if there were no guns.” Yes, and there tld be no fail if there were no suc cesses and no death if there were no life. moral and spiritual values, taught at home and practiced in the ho We can Keene told the representative sessions open with prayer? faith in the doctrine that what is in the human hand is more important than what is in the human heart “W every here | vod Jemia and the medical profess must ind, yes. and there by the transgressions of classmates in the last two years. ear-old Stephen Keene saw toc yipathetic tion needs to start at home with strong expect about its confinement. Onee control and workingin several cities, Gov Gilmore of Virginia says school vot are “something we ought to consider It's fine to install metal detectors, but the last two school shootin s began outside the buildings Giving parents choice of t within us all must be bound ernal moral laws, or it cannot be made to obey temporal, man-made la cannot change or control teen behavior They have to make their own choices Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-NY whose husband was killed and son injured in a 1993shooting aboardtheLong IslandRail place to look is within our homes. Educa: they ce it we ar unleashed, a wild culture “Hate will cause wrong choices. Ifa a bad heart. you cannot change it. Only God can change a bad heart 1 feel that our schools have done as well as they can because you 1997 shooting in Paducah, Ky. Did Keene tam: because ‘ WHE radi iously. We might as wel a wild animal to becc released from its ¢ person has think too few laws caused theshooti his school? He testified: “I believethe first the The lesson well, ar W n follow that lesson to cal conclusion, we are shocked that is said three friends killed and five wounded, in cluding his brother, during the December nearly four decades we have taught learned some of wron Adam Campbell, 18, a graduate of Col umbine High School in Littleton, Colo. two days before the Georgia school shoot \ll came from high schools shattered ddi 1 | jowngraded into insignificance by liticians, judges, “ethic t heologians, the entertainment ind! For bring God backinto our familie once again hang the Ten Commandments [in our classrooms] as a visible sign to panel of teen-agers testified before a congre ssional subcommittee last week s é that seek to protect two generations that only what ita given moment matters. expect our schools to raise children. Liberal secularists continue to put My that ged her ¢ mtrol laws many politicians can usually be counted 5 it. She re No law can be enforced, from speed limits to murder, unless substantial numbers of where to educate their children would improve their peace of mind and their children’s safety citizens are willing to obey One solution of immediate benefit is school choice. Already passed in Florida Guns were school. ava en Twas in but no one ¢ jeht one into the classrooms. We were not “values.” If rule tanght virtues, then. and for most of our natior they were no long ‘ again if Congre Will list children are tellin identical to what our us \ tio decided they'll work t what our becauseit's y)candy wents told HMOStrategy Misses the Mark: The Results Have Been a Miserable Failure If it had a mother or a father. they were thenation’s employers, who were sickof the nation’s physicians could only be herded and bullied into managed-care plans and HMOs, cost would becontrolled arming growthin the numberof ation’s just released without switching to th the dreaded falling to FREE ESTIMATES While the Peretti cone© Cr fornia Public Employees Retirement Sys doctors were getting tem, has just announced its rates will rise an average of 9.7 percent in 2000 for the 10 HMO plans it offers. Rates for its Kaiser Americans rose steadily. They stood 1 million ii They now number about 43 millic overs, meanwhile, are hifting vr burden onto their Permanente planwill go up 11.7 percent The insurance industry whines that this is all because of patient protection legislation passed in 39 of the states between 1994 and 1998. Well. even if they are ployees on average now pay about 20 percent of their premiums, up from 10 percent 10 years ago. This accel. erates pressure for more workers to 4,000 right, it only tells us that the private insurance industry th its relentless majority of voters demand Experience tells us that premium in creases will also increase the numberof uninsured and the portion of premiums borne by workers. The breathing spell we had at the doctors’ expense is over. The funny thing is, those asinine Harry and Louise TV commercials, the ones spon sored by the Health Insurance Associa tion of America that helped shoot down Mrs. Clinton's health-care reform plan. were right in som any ways As the insurers arned, health-care choice has been restricted. Physician ment has been curtailed. Patients and doctors are being herded like cattle. The number of uninsured has risen. And now premiums are taking off again. Mrs Clinton's health-care reforms never hap pened. But just about everything else did ee a Dontpayostrageonscredtt cardinterest! | bgietnetetathe am koa Se eo ad ea ware Reny eee kre) © Free Pickup & Delivery 50-Mile Area AIR DUCT CLEANIN Premiums rose 6 perc: are ¢ xpected to rise 9 percent this year Ominously, the second largest buyer of health insurance in the nation, the Cali squeezed. the number of uninsured to you better than new! The Grout Doctor UReesy are going through the roof again, threat ening torise at two, three. even four times the overall rat not favorably It comes back‘ seal, repair, regrout & stain/change grout color largely at the doctors’ expense. Health insurance premiums were miraculously stable. But nowthat the physicians have had their pants taken down, premiums patients. annual $164,000. It costs. cannot deliver affordable coverage at a standard that 39 tites and a great Reupholster Now! ” cracked grout? We clean, |Others claim to clean | your air ducts. | We ee itt year in 1997, demands for profits and huge overhead it looked as if managed care was makinga huge dent in medical care inflation e them more y showed the median income of doctors was downfor the fourth straight based on a telephon forego coverage For a brief period early in this decade. bought into the rubbish that greedy doc tors v e all that were wrong with the health-care system. that they needed conclusive evi dence of just how these trends have af fected the overall availability and afford ability of health care. And the answer is atically in the 1970s and d for $200,000 a declining for the first time on record. The American Medi tractive Canadian model. So what if the harmless Canadians have longer life ex pectancies than Americans. Their system physicians The experiment succeeded only if you MBAs and accountants to tell them howto reducingtheir up about half as fast And he median income of physicians uninsured families would be halted, all without government's he avy hand to guide things. Affordat alth care everybody would be an attainable re (THE STUFF BETWEENTHETILES) Tired of moldy, missing, dirty say Canadian counterparts. About 92 percent of American doctors now participate in some formof managed care. Physiciar fees, which had beenrisingat a rate of more than percent a year, are nowgoing paying ever-increasing costs of their em ployees’ health care. It postulated that if PRETTY TILE, UGLY GROUT? we Well, the results of this experiment are in. 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