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There you will also find health related newsletters, articles, and pamphlets. Just stop by. SPEAKERS AND PRESENTATIONS Peer Health Educators and Health Center Staff are available to speak to your organization on any of the listed health issues as well as others. Call us for details. ^ALTH EDUCATION AT THE STUDENT RECREATION CENTER Come visit our cart for updated health and wellness information on topics such as: alcohol and the effects on “workouts,” training and fitness; food supplements and replacement fluids; effects of tobacco on physical fitness; eating disorders and much more! Topics Addressed: HIV/AIDS, Nutrition, Alcohol, Sexuality, Smoking, Cholesterol, Eating Disorders, Fitness, Stress, Relationships, Weight Management Health Education Program at the Health Center 346-4456 Visit us at our web site: http://healthed.uoregon.edu Gore calls Bush plan I too severe for seniors By RON FOURNIER Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Al Gore warned Monday that George W. Bush’s Medicare plan would strip senior citizens of their “sense of dignity” by forcing many into welfare offices for prescription drug coverage. “I believe seniors deserve better than a plan that leaves out millions of middle-class seniors, varies in coverage from state to state and could run seniors through welfare offices,” the Democratic presiden tial candidate said in this hotly con tested state with a motherlode of elderly voters. The accusation drew protests from Bush’s campaign, though GOP ing assumptions his staff has made about Bush’s plan, caused inde pendent analysts to question whether the vice president was playing racial and class warfare pol itics to court elderly voters, as well as suburban whites. “He’s trying to turn voters against Governor Bush by scaring seniors,” said Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer. The hyperbole-filled exchange opened a critical week of campaign ing in which Gore will focus on Medicare while Bush highlights what he calls ‘an education reces sion” in America. National polls show the race is a dead heat, with Republican intensity rising and Bush regaining his footing. In the all-important race for 270 electoral votes, Gore is faring well in states that Bush had hoped to sew up by now, including Florida. Neva da, North Carolina, Arizona and Colorado. Bush is still doing better than expected in Democratic-lean ing Oregon, Washington state and Wisconsin. The vice president will begin air ing ads in Nevada on Tuesday. De mocrats are polling in Arizona to determine whether their nominee. should begin competing there, ac cording to a senior Gore adviser. After the first heacf-to-head de bate next week, Democrats will poll voters in North Carolina, Georgia and Colorado to gauge whether to dramatically expand the vice presi dent’s target list, the adviser said. Bush probably can’t get 270 elec toral votes without Florida, where his brother Jeb is governor. Despite spending $5 million in TV ads since the conventions, Bush is mired in a tie with Gore in most polls. Appealing to voters here, Gore called good health “a basic right” and pledged to increase penalties on HMOs that exclude seniors. He said he would protect and expand Medicare. “I will veto the use of any money from Medicare, for anything other than Medicare,” said Gore, though it could be argued that his own plan doesn’t meet that standard. Gore compared Bush’s idea of Medicare reform to what he called i NATIONAL j ELECTIONS aides did not deny that states could re quire sen iors to go to welfare offices un der Bush’s plan. Gore’s charge, based on self-serv GOP efforts in the past to “disman tle the program.” “He’s supported the Newt Gin grich assault on Medicare,” Gore said of Bush on ABC News, refer ring to the former GOP speaker of the House. The Gore campaign wouldn’t provide details backing up the charge. Bush spokesman Fleischer said he didn’t know what Gore was talk ing about. He noted the Clinton Gore administration in 1997 signed into law Gingrich’s proposal to cut $225 billion from Medicare over 7 years. Gore promises to extend Medicare’s solvency by five years, from 2025 to 2030, by using the an ticipated $400 billion, 10-year Medicare surplus to reduce the fed eral debt. He says that would save $75 billion in interest payments, which would be used to shore up Medicare. The vice president says he would spend $338 billion over 10 years to add a prescription drug benefit to Medicare. Bush’s $198 billion Medicare plan would give states $48.billion to provide prescription drug coverage while he implements a market-based approach on the na tional level. Gore told reporters aboard Air Force II that 14 states already offer prescription drug plans and four of them — Connecticut, Delaware, Maine and Minnesota — require seniors to sign up for the program at welfare offices. Bush’s plan “could mean” the same for seniors nation wide, he said. His language was less absolute than Sunday, when Gore left no room for doubt by claiming that Bush’s plan “would force” seniors into welfare offices. Aides said he stands behind Sunday’s characteri zation. The vice president said he wasn’t practicing racial or class warfare. In stead, he said that, unlike welfare, Medicare “gives seniors a sense of dignity in receiving benefits with out regard to income levels or em ployment status.” Fleischer said Bush’s plan is modeled after a Pennsylvania pro gram that does not involve welfare offices. Though t,:,»tes would not be required to follow the Pennsylvania example, the spokesman said, “That doesn'! mean Bush requires people to go to welfare offices.” David Bositis, an expert on racial politics with the Joint Center for Po litical and Economic Studies in Washington, said Gore appears to be playing on the pride of middle-class Americans “who would find it in sulting to go to a welfare office.” “You always wonder in terms of welfare issues if there is some racial subtext, but this message seems to be aimed directly at seniors,” Bosi tis said. Michigan pollster Ed Sarpolus, however said Gore’s message touch es a hot button among certain sub urban Detroit voters who equate welfare with a whole set of racial is sues that have divided whites and blacks. “In lower Macomb County it is certainly a racial issues, but in most places it is economic,” Sarpolus said. “Lots of people won’t accept welfare, even if they need and de serve it, because of the stigma at tached.” HI till ill! ill" mu ini ;iiiSi§i ' y ' ' IS /or Emerald For more information about freelancing for the Oregon Daily Emerald call 346-5511.
