Show Thursday Febrauary 13 1992 Discrimination- 0eralized and we J®sikm!g$ 'v (m$ 'hJ f X £ JtJ$ ' £( fHs'V : va jfcflb '& itwWKAw A free Incoma tax aarvlca la offered from noon to 2 pm ovary Tuesday through Thureday In room CBB 236 to help file tax forme Inetuctor'a Ron Vogel and Hanning Olean aeelet buelnaea major students prepare tax forms for senior citizens low Income people and students (photo by Garth Frandean) Health care: The search for solutions by Shannon R Sweeten stafT writer The latest studies show at least 36 million Americans are without health insurance Another 26 mil lion arc under insured Over 60 million people have inadequate in- surance coverage It is time some- thing is done about this crisis At a recent town meeting Rep Bill Orton explained three broad based solutions The first benefits I being Medicare-lik- e have yet to talk to anyone with good feelings about Medicare Most people felt the need for supplemental coverage They felt too much money is being consumed by the bureaucracy Red tape is named as one of the downfalls of this solution however my opinion is different With a little quality planning this solution could be put into effect without additional red tape The second solution is employer based health care With this all employers will be re-quired to provide health insurance for their employees or pay nine percent of their payroll into a pub- tic program with Medicare-typ- e benefits The majority of compa- nies will opt for the nine percent making solution B the same as A with the exception of business picking up a small percentage of the cost Solution C is a fully public single payer system complete with comprehensive benefits This the most sane If we are to going enact an extensive pro- gram we should at least gain some comfort from it Income taxes would have to be raised from about 28 percent to around 60 percent a whopping 32 over- percent increase This seems but let’ pul i tow Many arc spending 32 income on health their percent of msurance Many people have em- - perspective why not require business to payin solution B's nine percent I wonder how much of our taxes go for government employees welfare and other government health care expenditures? I feel a straight income tax increase would be questionable If you have a large family you should bear more of the burden There should be a reasonable deductible that would reward people for being well and using preventative measures Rep Orton does not feel any of the throe will be enacted I tend to agree they have been tossed around close to 25 years already Why should this year be any dif-progr- am fcrcnl? Some other suggestions that may help solve the health care crisis: we must continue to educate about the dangers of alcohol and tobacco abuse and increase alco hoi and tobacco taxes One in six deaths in America are related to tobacco According to Terry Holbrook project director College of Eastern Utah alcohol and drag education and prevention program 400000 deaths per year are tributed to tobacco and 123000 contributed to alcohol Although con-soun- ds these numbers are staggering let's compound it with the fact 60 percent of all medical costs occur the last 40 days of a per son's life wjn The Eagle -- Page 3 (continued from page 2) finger pointing overlook the reelings and attitudes that minorities have for whites This is the racism nobody sees or wants to admit Racism is not just a white problem! It's a universal problem affecting every nationality or the country even the world Until we fess up to this fact things will continue to get worse On many occasions I have been the victim oT discrimination because of my skin color I grew up in an area of Arizona where whites were in the minority I was stigmatized because of my ethnic background I was denied access to groups because I wasn't of their kind It didn't matter that 1 was sincere with my hand of One friendship young man finally befriended me but when his fellow friends of his own race came around I was thrown out and ostracized I was threatened many times Where is the justice of that? While serving as a Christian missionary in Virginia people judged me by what I was and not by who I was People let mYhluc eyes stop them from ing Variation in medical UanotonajaprobuTl “T04 Looking back lam the risk of establishing grateful for these experiences be- malpractice Sttwadd be less- made me realize the ened dramatically possibly lower- foibles of prcjudism and the screwy ingheaUhcarecosts value systems Americans have e also need to relax antitrust We idolize men like Malh is not sensible to have colm X one of the black move-highly ipecializcd multi-milliof lie 196& while dollar equipment ueyenf hospiul me wc w uu dis- These machines in his words Malcolm X tributed geographically and by preached on many occasion the population racist views of hatted toward whites He expressed the view A poll was conducted using 36 that all whites were Satans destudents from the College of serving destruction He had quite Eastern Utah's Economics 101 a following Later when he class softened his views and realized the need for racial harmony he Is was as evidence shows assassiWhat the number one nated by his own people Groups economic issue facing this like The Black Panthers ( a group country today? not unlike the KKK) wanted rev46 the International Trade olution and racial wars Their Deficit ideology lives on today in every 40 the Recession ethnic group To the men and 11 the Unemployment Rate women who promote these be3 the federal Deficit liefs I say you are no better than David Duke! Do you think Utah is Insulated We are repulsed by the Nazi from the effects of a recession? Skinhead movement but w' for28 Yes get that groups of all back36 No grounds follow after the same 36 Don't know ideals as the skinheads Gangs like the Bloods and Crips of Los Do you think south eastern Angeles commit the same hate crimes but we react so differently Utah Is proof? to them Folks hatred is the Yes 5 same whether found In a white 80 No Black Hispanic or Asian 14 Don't know A sad fact is that the negative is always at the front All Conclusions: The time is right to these examples are extreme but do something about the Internathe point is this: when two tional Trade Deficit Utah's things are outright racist yet we afTccted by economy is directly judge one to be and one not to be we are hypocritical and faulty in federal trade policies Changing thinking Equality in which we our trade policies should create ourselves goes right out jobs and reduce the federal deficit pride the back door with yesterday's on semi-recessi- on trash Overlooked is the millions who are making an effort to make things better In this case the views of the many arc tinted by the views of the few Hopefully the people trying to make things better are paving the way for future generations where this problem of all social problems will be stripped from civilization There are many obstacles and no easy answers The first obstacle to overcome is to admit that prcjudism is a problem of all people This is one issue where we all share common ground and have a stake Education is the key An ignorant people is also a racist people Like what the late Martin Luther King Jr wonderfully said"Eiihcr we learn to live together as brothers and sisters or we will perish together as fools” If we can overcome the vice of prcjudism we can truly be ”lhe land of the free and the home of the brave” Maybe then we will be a country of equality Radio Shqgk Computer scientific calculati AKTJIANSaJM OWNER iJT-S- mauieo Don't settle for a few quick bites Grab a hefty footlong sub at Subway Get 1 2 of fresh baked bread stuffed with meats and free fixin's Now that's a real meal 382 E Main Price Utah 84501 637-913- 7 suBwaSB |