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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (16941)	4/19/2000 10:57:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

DMA, I don't think I feel as sanguine as you do about Bush as a healthcare visionary. From the April 11 NYT: Texas has had one of the nation's worst public health records for decades. More than a quarter of its residents have no health insurance... the state ranks near the top in the nation in rates of AIDS, diabetes, TB, and teenaged pregnancy, and near the bottom in immunizations, mammograms, and access to physicians... but since GWB became governor in 1995, he has not made health a priority, his aides acknowledge. He has never made a speech on the subject, his press office says. His administration opposed a patients' bill of rights in 1995 before grudgingly accepting one in 1997, and fought unsuccessfully to limit access to the new federal Childrens' Health Insurance Program... ...Among Texans ages 19-65 the percentage of persons without coverage... is higher than in any state but Arizona. The numbers are even worse among poor children, and hundreds of thousands of them are not enrolled in Medicaid, even though they qualify. There is much detail in the article, but I don't have a scanner. According to a report by the state comptroller's office in 1998, "Health conditions in the Texas-Mexico border are among the worst in the U.S., so distressful that reports on health conditions suggest a remote country in need of medical missionaries, not a part of Texas."