Show jv--ic'- Lon Daily ftevrepapsr LiTOFfyvVyiy ? moor Insldo SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A national consumer group has ranked Utah's managed care system in the bottom tier finding that the state has only four of 13 basic managed care protections the group looked aL The report by Families USA released Thursday showed that no state met all 13 criteria Utah was one of 33 that had four or fewer of the consumer protectioo laws ou the books “While some Utah insurers practice voluntary adherence to some of the protections ns n state we have failed to ensure that all managed care consumers in Utah are guaranteed the full range of basic common-sens- e protections” Bill Crim health care advocate for the public interest group Utah Issues said in a prepared statement Update hiii-imra- n HMtM Seniors say surfing Web beats sewing ' - - ££ - inA- — Utah has laws on its books the protect an ill patient's right to be referred to a specialist and a woman's right to hive direct access to an obstetrician or gynecologist The law also has prohibitions against gag rules which prevent doctors from disclosing treatment options and tens against financial incentives to deny or jfmnwyw -- Ssw- - tW r-- - Vj IK- - ' m 'Hit-- ' ' " In its report released Thursday Families USA srgues that federal legislation is needed and must cover all Americans A Senate G OP plan unveiled this week would coyer only about 48 million Americans who have insurance that is exempt from state regulation W ' k i Chief justice refuses to stop testimony of Secret Service rnai: sky case abruptly ending a bitter legal S' y - '' h 1 ' v r k: dispute and clearing die way for prosecutors to question some of their last key wit- - "Because several of my colleagues are out of the country 1 have decided to rule on the matter myself rather titan refer it to the conference (nil! court)" Rehnquist said V '-- -v w a J ' “The opinion of the court of appeals A fir If a ’ a- seems to me cogent and correct" With the Supreme Court ruling near President Clinton's Secret Service protec-to- n arrived at a courthouse minutes before noon when an earlier court ruling Mocking their testimony was set to expire The Secret Service officers including die chief of President Clinton’s security detail Larry Cockell filed into the courthouse as ordered by Independent Counsel Kenneth Start Cockell went to the grand jury area of the courthouse after the ruling m - "a - - Starr was expected to use a different £nnd jury than the one that has been ne Lassoing the prize? Other events t Paged - A Crossword Opinion Sports the $1 trillion range for the next decade at the same time they plan to set aside hundreds of billions more to preserve Social Security A recent Congressional Budget of an enormous budget Office estimate surplus “changes the chemistry of the surplus has risen from $655 billion over the coming decade to $155 trillion increasing Republicans eagerness to reduce taxes "When he (Clinton) said'save Social Security' the surplus was much smaller than it is now" Archer said Speaker Newt Gingrich add reporters There's more desire to look at how we might prudently use part of the surplus for tax reduction Rep BUI Archer chairman of the House Ways on Thursday the GOP leadership is now considering n cut "at least twice the size" of the one that had been on 8 Rehnquist Emery Kauztarich of and Means Committee said Thursday President Clinton last winter said he wanted to set aside the entire surplus to Several other officials said that In ium over 10 yean The House passed a budget earlier in the year calling for tax cuts of $101 billion over five years It was widely presumed that number would shrink in compromise talks with the Senate which called for cuts of $30 billion over the same period said Rep John Kasich Thursday he would revise that plan in the coming week to include " a very R-O- significant tax cm" The plan that cleared the House earlier this year includes $101 billion in would put it in the range of $250 Bullion over five yean and nearly $1 trit spending restraint to finance the tax cuts was not ruling on the administration request to review the entire legal dispute he assumed enough of his colleague might choose to do so later But he said there was no need for an order stopping the grand jury testimony "In my view die (administration) has not demonstrated that denying n stay and would cause enforcing the subpoenas irreparable harm” Rehnquist wrote "On balance the equities do not favor A stay applicant must granting a stay show that there is a likelihood that this court having granted (review) and heard the case would reverse the judgment erf the court of appeals The (administration) simply has not made that showing to my satisfaction and I believe my view would be shared by a majority of my colleagues” The emergency stay is a separate matter from whether die court wants to hear arguments on t ie case this fall The Clinton administrate is seeking creation of a new legal privilege that would allow Secret Service agents M avoid testifying about what they mw and heard while guarding the president Birchers have both high and low profile in valley Jacob Santini staff writer By The John Birch Society — the controversial organization born during "The Red Scare” in the late 1950s — is alive and cleans the mile of asphalt The highway tiling isn’t very common” said Chick Heilson John Bitch Society coordinator far Montana half of Idaho half of Wyoming and Northern Utah It's like n business We get and let people know we are still out exposure a acre u The road cleanup sign is just ooe of two — POOR copy 1 M who just returned from a European teaching trip said that while he the table previously north of Smithficld lets motorists know who 16 15 CaK and nation's top qowgirts and cowboys are competing tor $250000 rodeo that ends Sunday prize money In the four-da- y then however The society has two chapters in Cache County one in the north and ooe in the south with a combined membership of about 50 The north chapter's youth group has a stretch of read on US Highway 91 it keeps clean A sign just Index of Santa Clarita “save Social Security first” Since known hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot Page 12 About Cache 4 Classifieds —18 16 Comics WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaden are raising their sights for an election year tax cut in It's here in Cache Valley although at least one local leader doesn't want his identity Hot hot hot hot Sabhuiy GOP plans $ 1 trillion tax cut well today Vecther Kalhy hear- ing the Lewinsky case AP photo ' "Exploring Your Voice Empowering Your Ufa” a workshop lor woman wM bo fcom 730 to 9 tonight at tfw Whittier Community Cantor 290 N 400 East a consumer group reports hacking ''4— r Cadio tonight j WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice William Rehnquist refused today to spare President Clinton's Secret Service protectors from testifying in the Monica Lewin- v ? i widely and no state has enacted the comprehensive set of provisions Democrats in Congress iwe - "5 iti ' WASHINGTON (AP) — State action designed C "tV- - non-prof- 1 to protect patients in the era of HMOt varies ‘fctel — fr i 2S - Cents Patient laws vary state to state reduce necessary health care But Utah laws fell short in nine other areas including a patient's rights to hive an emergency room visits paid for fey a managed care plan to go to a doctor outride the plan if time on the plan are inadequate to use a specialist as a primary care doctor if the patient is seriously ill and to continue to receive care from a doctor dropped from the plan under some circumstances Utah also does not have laws requiring a procedure to obtain prescription drugs not in a managed care plan or to appeal denials of care through a review process "For those that do not have the good fortune of a decent health plan their rights and the quality of their care are left entirely up to chance” Crim said By Carts Bass Scripps Howard Nsws Sendee WASHINGTON — It seems like in unlikely mi: older American and new technology But senior citizens an using the Internet in increasing numbers to surf shop date chat and keep up with the kids and grandchildren “It nukes all of us feel more vital more youthful’ Joyce Ols-so- n of Tfcmpa Fla said about seniors using die Internet “In the old days you would be in a sewing club or something but now we're in (computer) user groups” Olssoo bought a computer a few s yean ago and her son encouraged her to sign up with America Online She did and realized that she could use a little help navigating the information ' superhighway So Olssoo took commit- -' er classes designed for people ever 53 it offered through a organization called SenkxNeL She said that she went from “just barely operating the machine” to planand writing e-ning vacations on-li- ne maiL She is the designated joke 1 distributor for a group of heir on-lisenior friends and checks out every- thing from bed and breakfast sites to the news from her hometown in California via the Web “It just makes us feel more on top of things” she said “My kids thinks it's wonderful because they have something to talk to me about" More and more people like Olssoo are becoming senior netizens: Approximately 76 million of the 506 million Internet users in North America are age 50 or older according to a 1998 NielsenCommerceNet study Analysts expect that this number will continue to grow along with the percentage of Americans who are 55 and older ' The topic was the subject of a forum held Thursday by the Saute Special Committee on Aging Representatives from senior citizen organizations the Computer industry and government agencies said that the future of die fotcrnet involves aging retirees as much as Generation Xers “Older adults approach the Net with intelligence enthusiasm and a desire to inaster the new technology” ScnkxNet founder Mary FUrioug said A promotional video tape by Senior-N- et shows how using the Internet has changed some seniors' lives One senior married couple met and then eventually became engaged over the Internet SO health care in Utah? Group ranks state in bottom tier over quality of services A day In tf lift of serious Garth Brooks fans Cache Utah- © 1SS3 1 Hi 4 the other is in California — the society uses to publicize itself The group also advertises itself in Ogden with a billboard Although the Joha Birch Society promotes such activities as the road cleanup national President John McManus said it isn't all about picking up trash and community service The purpose of die society is to preserve the American system” McManus said "to abolish totalitarianism of any form and they (members) even get out and clean up the highway” Bora during the Cold War the John Birch in the 1960s for its Society was opposition to communist influence — both abroad and in the United States The society was named after CapL John Birch who was killed by Chinese Communists n few days after the end of World Warn Indie '60s Birchen were often ridiculed by liberals who thought members exaggerated die threat of communist infiltration of American government - i - well-kno- See SOCIETY m Page 12 V J V-- ' ‘ x ' r - a ' s Vt t 4 4 Diana MuMMHsMd JouimI Tha sign at th north and of SmWiMd aimouncas that tha John Bach Society la providing Rttar control and attracting youth |