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Show i UINTAH BASIN STANDARD. August 21. 1991 - Pace 3 UBAG continued from page 1 weve got." Listed below is a copy of the proposed budget One of the items listed is the Utah Procurement Outreach Program. This program is designed to increase competition for government and commercial requirements and to assist Utah firms to obtain more contracts. This is accomplished by providing marketing and technical assistance to Utah firms. Another program listed is Small Cities. This program is designed to help rural cities gain economic development and to compete with larger cities. JTPA is the Job Training Partnership Act. The purpose of the JTPA is to prepare youth and unskilled adults for entry into the labor force. It is also to afford training to those economically disadvantaged individuals and other individuals facing serious barriers to employment, who are in need of such training to obtain productive employment. Community Services varies each .year with a needs assessment of the community. They generally help with emergency services such as medical bills and rent. Several years ago they helped to establish the Food Pantry. Community services is also over the Santa Express. FEMA is a Federal Emergency Management Agency. This is a federally funded agency which allocates funding for various agencies such as the Family Support Center and the Food Pantry. Weatherization is another program which is within the UBAG budget. The puporse of this program is to provide energy cost reduction assistance to low income households. The program is funded by the Division of Energy and Exxon. The mqjor goal of the program is to enable low-inco- individuals and families (particularly the elderly and handicapped), to participate in energy conservation programs which will lessen the impact of the high cost of energy. (r UINTAH BASIN ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENTS PROPOSED BUDGET July 1,1991 Regional CDBG Community Utah Rehab Develop. Procurmn Review 41-1-- s, uvy v June 30. 1992 JTPA Housing Rehab Community FEMA Services Social Services Emergency TEFAP Repair Weather-- Aging ization CDBG RLF EED RLF 17,000 249,722 67,943 12,212 29,106 23,909 14,106 12,802 1,940 767 46,289 135,134 85 1,122,488 7,500 3,210 5,664 1,596 504 Ads-Pu- Subs-Boo- Contrad-Cons- 147 3,000 ....50 400 484 2,100 200 283 840 Notice b 600 400 1,340 1,690 2,760 1,000 1,200 Tele-Posta- 336 1,080 .... 1,640 1,200 500 500 5,020 .... 1,400 670 775 36,288 1,674 22.500 ...110,960 tr : 10,000 85 Board Expense Contractual 910,276.. 1,400 .... 21 ,61 6.... 61 ,490 1.638 Prof.Printing Equipment Conf. Fees Program Em Ser E. Security Admin PIC Board Liability Ins Vehicle Maint, Gas 7,500 1,500 500 644 120 1,000 .... 1,000 500 1,400 1,001 20,466 25,538 7,500 3,000 3,802 400 1,518 20,466 25,538 - 7,500 3,000 3,802 400 Tods Commodities TOTAL 126,068 360 850 1,500 501 39,000 67,000 . 25,000 . 46,000 INSURANCE continued from page 1 ries. Hie Duchesne Education Association president, Max Weis, said he would be meeting with the school representatives. They would be taking the offer back to their schools on Tuesday. Faculties will then vote individually whether to ratify the offer. Although the 3 increase on the salary base still leaves the Duchesne School District at the bottom of the states salary schedule, Mr. Weis sounded hopeful that an agreement had been reached. He said, "I would like to see more of a salary increase but if theres no money, there's no money." He explained that he supported plans to eventually reach a statewide health insurance package. "Tbis would make it easier on the small" er, outlying districts,' according to continued from page Weis. ered a resident when you have children in school, are employed or own property in Utah. You must register these vehicles immediately upon establishing residency. Gurr also wanted to remind residents that alcohol cannot be sold between 1 am and 8 am. There have apparently been some violations of that regulation. 2500 22,036 .. 2,000 TEACHERS Roosevelt Police will step up traffic enforcement Traffic enforcement will be stepped up, according to Roosevelt Police Chief, Cecil Gurr. Officers have been particularly instructed to concentrate on speeding and1 improper registration. of According to Section Utah Law, drivers are required to have Utah registration and plates on all vehicles, including motor-boattrailers, etc. You are consid -- 1 labs. Even when they dont have a financial interest in equipment or labs, they have a professional interest. They want to support the hospitals so the hospitals will continue to upgrade equipment Doctor bills also continue to increase. One administrator said doctors have a tremendous debt load coming out of medical school. Spero said they often owe $150,000 in school loans. A young doctor starting out with a young family wants to reduce that debt load as quickly as possible. So he sets a charge base high enough to cover the repayment of that debt as well as his office overhead and other costs.. All these reasons contribute to spiraling health care costs, but perhaps the number one reason is that the majority of people who use medical care are uninsured or underinsured. Neither Medicare nor Medicaid fully cover the cost of medical services. And those who are unable to pay anything are entitled to medical care as well. Consequently those who are privately insured end up paying not only for their own care, but the costs of care for those who dont pay. Hospital administrators call it cost shifting. The excess cost of doing business is shifted to the privately insured, or those who can afford to pay. Insurance carriers also 'end up paying for those who simply dont pay their bills. "Everything that happens in a hospital , .J 17,082 u 1,01430 68,504 . 21,616 .. 68,322 ultimately gets passed on to the people who have private insurance," one administrator said. In addition to those who underpay is the deterioration of the insurance pool itself. Spero said as insurance rates climb, the healthiest people tend to drop insurance or get cheaper plans with less coverage. Thus those who really need the insurance are the only ones left on the high coverage plans. So the costs rise dramatically. In fact, often those who need insurance the most cant get it at all. So again, those who are insured end up paying the bills. Even many Blue Cross plans dont fully pay the medical costs of their owners. Spero said Blue Cross negotiates for discounts on rates because of its large pool of customers. Hospitals have to accept the discounts to get the business. In fact, any managed care system that doesnt cover the hospitals total costs, adds to the cost passed on to others. Experts see little chance of remedying this problem. As they say, the United States already has a national health insurance. Its just paid for by the privately insured. Thus the mqjor reasons for the rising costs are tied up in our national attitude about the right of every citizen to the maximum in health ... 10874 157,059 1 0,000 1,518 .... 1,518 .... 960 care. "This damn the cost' attitude, particularly when its our parents or our child, has to be borne by society," a Wyoming administrator said. An example is the tremendous amount of money spent on the dying elderly. It is not uncommon, according to this administrator, to perform $100,000 surgery on a person wholl die in a few months anyway. Medicare will pay $16,000 of that cost. The insured public pays the .rest. "We do more for the elderly than any other country," he said. Another example is the cost of AIDS treatment "No matter how much money you pump into it, they all die anyway," the administrator said. "If there are 2 million people with AIDS, and it costa $60,000 to care for each one, that is $120 million." And people with AIDS are often uninsured or uninsurable. Unless there is a fundamental shift in societys perceptions of need for medical care, the demand will continue and it will have to be paid for. In national health care plans in other countries, the elderly do not get this kind of care. In fact, even the critically ill may not get Hub kind of care. People have to wait in line for services. They often die before they are able to receive the care they need Consequently, even in notional health care systems, the rich 2,100 .... 1,796,101 4 continue to pay for better services. 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