| Show A8 The Salt Lake Tribune NATION Wednesday September 7 1994 Health Reforms: A Child Shall Need Them -- -- 1- t i t t preschool class years ago The problem was he could not hear well He had an ear infection "I went to his mother and suggested she take him into the physician and help him" Murray said "It did not occur and after three weeks I went back to her and I said Have you taken him in?' And she looked at me in tears and said 'we don't have any NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON — When Teresa Beard was not working she did not have to worry about health care for her two kids They were covered by Medicaid a government program for the poor But she got a job then a promotion and her 817000 annual income yanked her children off Medicaid Now she says she cannot afford private health insurance for Mia 7 and Dallis 2 so they do not see doctors or dentists anymore "I was just ready to bawl when they pulled them off Medicaiddivorsaid Beard a cee in Topeka Kan "Ifs just not fair for the kids I want to do better for myself and better for the kids — and they get penalized for it If anyone should be covered it should be the children" That idea — children first — is the argument being voiced increasingly in Congress these days as Democratic and Republican members try to salvage something worthwhile from the wreckage of comprehensive health reform But conservative critics citing the deficit are reluctant to open new avenues for expensive subsidies and benefits Nearly one in four of the 39 million uninsured Americans is under 18 and tens of millions of insured children are not covered for routine preventive care including immunizations according to the American Academy of Pediatrics And the trends show "fewer and fewer children are of the getting covered because tremendous costs- - said Christopher Dodd More than half the uninsured children live with a father or mother who works full time "In essence they are the children of working class America" said Betty Lowe president of the American Academy of Pediatrics Health insurance misses children Almost a quarter of Americans without health insurance are children and most live in families with working parents Uninsured underitaft 18 - r-- 19 to 64 years old - -- Oninsureit - 14 r 55 23 Some unemployment SOURCES: EITlpoyee Rene Ills Research lost:Lae Treasury Depanm erit Knight-Ridde- r coverage to all children is relaChildren do tively not get sick as often as adults Preventing an illness is far less expensive than treating it For example a dollar invested in prenatal care saves $3 to $4 in the huge costs of providing an infant with intensive care later cost-effecti- childs untreated illness A brings pain to the child anxiety to the parents and sometimes repercussions to the community Sen Patty Murray remembers an unruly kid in her Moreover extending health - : 6 : — ''' i i4"1' " ' ' ''''''"- - A 7 - ''4- - -- 'urktn-1-- - - ' " !" 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'''':: '"- - health coverage for all children would encourage welfare mothers to get off relief and go to work Teresa Beard says she is scared "Mia hasn't been to the dentist y in ages and Dallis hasn't had care since we left Medicaid" Beard said "Heaven forbid what would happen if they got sick" e Her monthly pay of $1260 she says is almost entirely consumed by payments for rent utilities day care car payments auto insurance past medical debts groceries trash collection telephone water gasoline and church tithing Virtually every health bill proposed by Democrats and Republicans provides benefits for children and pregnant women but the coverage varies widely Under the bill sponsored by Senate Majority Leader George families of Mitchell four with incomes below $27313 — 185 percent of the federal poverty level — would be able to insure children and pregnant women at no cost Partial subsidies would be available at higher income levels up to $44292 (300 percent of poverty) The proposal of Mitchell's counterpart Minority Leader is far less genBob Dole erous It would pay full premiums for children in the poorest families — up to the poverty level of $14764 for a family of four — and provide sliding-scalpartial that'll work Part time 7'''' 'Ns health-car- e ) Under 4'--'''' s I insurance' Advocates also argue that Total uninsured for 1992: 37 million A'''''" - I : KNIGHT-RIDDE- - - 0- f Lynne Slaiikyabe Associated Press Coast Guard burns empty Cuban refugee boat to prevent Interference with other ships' navigation US Moves 100 Cuban Refugees to Panama The Cubans going to Panama did not make much of a dent in the numbers being held at this US base where Cuban boat people have been taken since when the United States reversed its policy of automatically granting asylum to Cuban refugees At roll call Tuesday 23231 Cubans were being housed at Guantanamo and 3720 more were en route after being picked up from rafts and small boats in the Straits of Florida On Tuesday 380 Cubans had been intercepted at sea by early afternoon That brought the total picked up at sea this year to 32900 Meanwhile Cuba's chief negotiator in talks aimed at stemming the refugee flow from his country hinted Tuesday that "maybe" a deal could be struck with the United States for a limited immigration accord The United States wants to expand legal immigration in return for Cuba's promise to halt the flood of desperate Cuban rafters trying to reach Florida As the arduous halting talks headed into the sixth day former Cuban foreign minister Ricardo Alarcon repeated that the devastating US economic embargo on his country must be discussed By Tony Winton PRESS THE ASSOCIATED GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE Cuba — The first Cuban refugees to be moved out of the overflowing tent city on this US military base were put aboard planes Tuesday for Panama All 100 were volunteers -We approached the Cuban camp leaders and told them of our plans and 100 came up immediately" said Marine Lt Pete Mitchell a spokesman for the joint military group running the Guantanamo refugee camp Cubans are being transferred to refugee camps in the jungles of Panama to make room at the naval base for more of their fellow citizens Many of the Cubans flown to Panama aboard two Air Force said they were optimistic that conditions at the Panama refugee camp would be better than in Guantanamo and that it would be easier from Panama to stay in touch with their relatives "By going to Panama 1 am one step closer to my eventual destination — the United States" said e subsidies that phase out at mid-Augu- st Eduardo Barber° Guelcon Toledo $22146 (150 percent of poverty) !!gr : diawatc i rrzm r71 rrT1 1:'vtal &4 - )611 5 I r-7- 1--1 nri h r-"4- rrt rk-- 211 "!"- -- -1 I 1 emell 1 fl 0 ri ix :: IN t v Kii-- 111-1 IJL Tv LAI' n 17-L7-4- P1 LID F3--1 1A N 6--T 7-411r- :1A !J 1 1 bow f -- 4 4116- 00 - t "or!" 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