Bush squashes Oregon Medicaid plan
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VV A S H I N G T O N
(AP) — The Rush ad
ministration on Mon
day rejected Oregon's
plan to extend Medi
caid health coverage
to more people by ra
Honing services lor mu pour, »mymg n
would violalo a now federal law protecting
the disabled.
However, Health and Human Services
Secretary Louis Sullivan indicated that the
administration wanted to approve some
thing similar to what Oregon had proposed
and invited the state to ask again once it
worked out the legal wrinkles
"I urge Oregon to submit a revised appli
cation which addresses these concerns, and
I look forward to approving such a demon
stration," Sullivan said in a letter Monday
to Oregon Gov. Barbara Roberts.
The decision brought outcries from Sen
Bob Packwood, K-Ore , and others, with
Pad wood saying it would hurt President
Bush's re-election chances in Oregon
The stale planned to bring 120.0(H) more
poor people under the health coverage of
Medicaid But to do that, it would limit
what services would Ik1 paid for with public
money Medicaid would cover only S7H of
700 medical procedures on a list estab
lished by the state
Conditions that would not have been cov
ered under the plan Include those which
generally get better on their own. where
home treatment is more effective and where
there is little or no hope. They include ex
pensive treatments for incurable cancer, liv
er transplants for alcoholics, the final stages
of AIDS and premature babies who have
virtually no i banco of survival.
Oregon's proposal — for which (he state
legislature had approved spending an esti
mated S:«> million was an experiment
which would have required the federal gov
ernment to grant the slate an exemption
from other legal requirements. The Medi
caid program provides health cure for the
poor and is administered by tho stales un
der rules set down by the federal govern
ment Tho federal and state governments
share the costs
Other states looking for ways to deal with
their own soaring Medicaid t osts were
watching the Oregon experiment to see if It
would get approval, and, if so. how well in
worked.
In his letter to the governor. Sullivan said
that "given the real possibility that Oregon's
general approach will serve as a model for
other states, it is critically important that It
go forward only with strict adherence to the
legal protections that President Hush has
worked so hard to enact ”
I’ackwood, who faces a tough ro-elecllon
race this year, said he was "outraged and
disappointed" at the decision, and com
plained bitterly that the state had been
"stabbed in the h.u k
LSD guru
eyes new
drug —
CD-ROM
BLVIiRLY HILLS. Calif.
(AH) — Psssst. Timothy
Leary is concocting u new
psychedelic experience
"And it's still legal. So
don't toll anybody,” he
whispers conspiratorily.
But Leary will tell you
he’s never been more serious
than ho is about this new
psychedelic experience, the
one called CD-ROM.
"Those letters are more
important than LSD — and
oven CIA," ho continues
good-naturedly. "CD-ROM is
going to be just as revolu
tionary as the invention of
the pencil and paper for
democratizing and empow
ering the people.”
CD-ROM, for those who
haven't heard, is the latest
computer rage, merging
compact disc-created sights
and sounds with personal
databases.
The result is a computer
ized audio-visual program so
all-encompassing that a per
son could store on a single
computer disc an
encylopedia, dictionaries
containing all the words of a
dozen languages, an Atlas
and a film library — and still
have room to include a col
lection of favorite records.
Gore raps ‘hypocritical president’
NEWARK, Calif (AP) Son
Al Coro on Monday rekindled
Ins attacks on Prosidont Bush's
environmental record .is Gore’s
role of chief spokesman on en
vironmental issues lor the Dem
ocratic presidential ticket con
tinues to evolve.
While visiting a plant that
turns used oil into automobile
brake fluid. Industrial lu
bricants and other products.
Gore mockcxl Bush's 1 ‘JHH cam
paign pledge to lie the "envi
ronmental president," saying
Bush instead was "the hypo
critical president,"
Campaign aides said Gore's
stop at the Evergreen Oil Go.,
located in this San Francisco
Bay-area community, was de
signed to point to what they
culled "the ultimate example of
Bush's hypocrisy on the envi
ronmortt."
The president visited tho
10O-worker oil recycling facili
ty in Juno, evoking cries of pro
lest from environmentalists,
who churned tho White House
had not supported tho oil re
cycling Industry.
The Tennessee senator has
taken tho lead In criticizing
White House environmental
policies since he accepted a
spot on the Democratic ticket
with Arkansas Gov Dill ('Un
ion Gore was outspoken on the
issue during tho Democratic
National Convention, but had
said little about it since
He told reporters traveling on
his campaign Jet that the ad
ministration has refused to en
force a federal requirement for
companies that either bum or
dump oil to remove lead and
Report on AIDS ends
with suspended staff
BOSTON {AI’J Two now* staff member* of Monitor Radio, a
broadcast service of the Christian Set once Church, worn placed on
paid loave after refusing to air an apology for a report on AIDS
Monitor Radio executives said they received many calls front of
fender! church members after the nationally broadcast report on
AIDS prevention in Thailand. It described male prostitutes' attire
and mentioned that AIDS workers used cucumber* to demonstrate
how to put on condoms
Ken Bader, producer of Early Edition, and Dale Willmnn. its
host, defended the report as appropriate for its early-morning lime
slot.
Broadcast editor David Cook said Bader and Wlllman, who are
not Christian Scientists, wore suspended last week for insubordina
tion. not for disagreeing with the decision to air the apology
Wlllman said Monitor editors told him Wednesday he could take
a reporting job in Chicago with a S10.000 cut In pay. resign or be
dismissed.
Senate moves closer to nuke-test ban
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tho Senate headed
Monday toward sharply restricting — and eventu
ally ending — U.S. testing of nuclear weapons,
defying President Bush and culminating a four
decade struggle by testing opponents.
"Surely there has to be some kind of un end to
this activity," said Son. Mark Hatfield. K-()re.
"Are wc really locked Into tho proposition that
testing goes on m perpetuity?"
A provision pushed by Hatfield, Sen. James
Exon, D-Neb., und Majority Loader George Mitch
ell, D-Maino, would impose a nine-month mora
torium on nuclear weapons tests, then permit
limited safety testing for three years, losting
would bo halted altogether in 19*10.
The moratorium was attached to a $22 billion
measure financing federal water projects and en
ergy programs for fiscal 1993. which starts Oct. 1.
A version of the bill already passed by the House
contains a one-year moratorium on testing, ensur
ing that some test limits will lie in the final bill.
Bush is expected to veto the measure. Defense
Secretary Oick Cheney told a hearing last week
that continued lusting is "absolutely vital” to en
suro safety and reliability of the U S. arsenal
Bush maintains that a certain number of tests
oach your — now set at six — is needed to ensure
warheads will explode when they're supposed to,
and won't whim they are not.
Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton
favors an immediate reduction in the number of
nuclear tests, followed quickly by a comprehen
sive ban on testing.
A lWi.'t treaty twinned nuclear test explosions
atxive ground, but underground tests at the Ne
vada test site have continued. They are used to
develop new weapons designs, to test safety sys
tems, to ensure that weapons work and produce
desired yiolds, and to test other weapons and sys
tems in the environment of a nuclear explosion.
other pollutants
Evergreen ofTit iaIs welcomed
flush, hut have themselves crit
ic i/ed tin! administration fur
not lucking a t)<in on burning
used oil
Thu 0-yoarold company also
was active In a lawsuit filed
against the Environmental I'ro
lot lion Agent y by the Ha/arti
ous Waste Treatment Council,
seeking for forte enforcement
of the law
“When I saw George flush
sitting here on this stool brag
gtng about this company. I
knew that this industry was in
the process of suing Hush and
Quayle to make them follow
the law," Core salt!
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