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By Donald Clark
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medical care, are able to receive
health screening, maintenance and
im m unization services through
c lin ic and home visits. There is a
supplemental food referral program
also known as W IC, for women, in
fants and children who have special
n u tritio n a l needs. Some o f the
citizens in need o f this very
necessary service are treated at the
Woodlawn Community Health Cen
ter at 17th and Dckum. I f measures
3 and 4 do not pass on June 30th,
the W oodlawn Center w ill be
scheduled for closure by November
30, 1981, and approxim ately 300
children in the com m unity w ill be
without those services.
Dental services such as those
provided through the Buckman
Dental C linic on Northeast Everett
also are at stake i f the serial levy
doesn’ t pass. Approxim ately 95^o
o f the population under 18 w ill be
affected by dental disease at one
time or another, and about 40% of
people over 55 have lost all their
teeth. Some 500 low-income men,
women and children in the N o rth /
Northeast community alone w ill be
without subsidized dental treatment
i f measure 3 is defeated. W ith the
percentages o f people badly needing
dental treatment already high, can
we afford to put another 500 people
in jeopardy?
Family planning services offered
through the A lb in a M ultiservice
Center and the health clinic in the
C olum bia V illa Housing D istric t
w ill be forced to cut back on
operating hours and close their
doors to about 500 low -incom e
residents. An additional 300 people
w ould no longer be eligible fo r
general medical care offered
through these same clinics.
The elderly and the poor
desperately in need o f services
provided through the County’ s Por-
ject Health Division also w ill be af
fected if the serial levy is rejected by
the voters. In fact, several hundred
o f those enrolled from the N o rth /
Northeast D istrict w ill be w ithout
Project Health services. Community
mental health clinics such as the
N o rth /N o rth e a s , C lin ic w ill also
have to make both staff and patient
reductions if the levy fails.
Library services w ill be substan
tially reduced, closing seven branch
es -- one o f which is the A lb in a
Branch on NE 15th - and operating
hours w ill be reduced at the central
library and existing branches.
The cuts and reductions I just
outlined are o f course applicable
only to the N o rth /N o rth e a st
districts, however the overall cuts
and reductions will affect all distric
ts within Multnomah County.
Measure 4 cannot pass if Measure
3 is rejected, and Measure 3 alone
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s SEAFOOD
From Multnomah County
D uring the past few months,
we’ ve been hearing alot about
President Reagan’ s federal budget
cuts, as well as cutbacks in Gover
nor A tiy e h ’ s state budget, and
have grown concerned about the
devastating impact those cuts w ill
have on citizens in this country.
At the same time, the County has
prepared its budget fo r the fiscal
year, and we, too, are cutting back.
The 1981-82 County budget im
poses cuts and reductions in some o f
the services provided by Multnomah
County, not only due to decreasing
federal and state revenues, but also
increasing costs and a shortfall o f
local resources. To attem pt to
minimize some o f these cutbacks, a
three-year, $5.1 m illion serial levy
has been put before the voters on
June 30th, which w ill in part restore
some of the County’ s basic services -
- if measures 3 and 4 pass.
You are probably aware o f how
the proposed cuts and reductions
w ill affect M ultnom ah County
residents in general, but you may
not be aware of how those cuts and
reductions will affect the North and
Northeast districts in particular.
O f utmost im portance arc the
reductions in C om m unity Health
Services. At present, children from
birth to age 13 whose parents arc
unable to provide any source o f
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w ill not restore county services to
their present capacity. Passage o f
both measures 3 and 4 w ill however,
create a d d itio n a l revenues which
w ill enable the County to substant
ia lly retain most o f our basic
programs and services. The cost o f
this tax levy to the average
homeowner with a home assessed at
$50,000 would be only $15.50 per
year.
The cost o f living continues to rise
at a rapid rate. The unemployment
rate is steadily rising and Reagan’ s
axe seems to cut deeper in to the
have nots than the haves.
We have little control over what
the Reagan A d m in istra tio n or the
state do, and ce rtainly no power
over reversing those cuts once
they’ re adopted.
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We do however, have the power
to m inim ize the impact o f those
cuts once they reach the local level
in M ultnom ah County. By getting
out to vote on Tuesday, June 30th,
and voting yes fo r Measure 3 and
Measure 4, we can help restore
some o f the basic services provided
by Multnomah County to those who
need it most.
On election day June 30th, if
there is any doubt in your mind as to
how to vote, ask yourself some basic
questions: I f not here — where? If
not now - when? If not us - who?
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Congressman Ron Wyden
Q. Congressman Wyden, the
House Budget Committee now has
before it proposals which could
reduce by more than 25 percent the
federal government's contribution
to health care programs. What does
this mean for Oregonians?
A. Plain and simple, it means
that some Oregonians arc going to
suffer. No m atter what kind o f a
Houdini you are, you can't take a 25
percent cut and still otter the same
level o f services.
For example, if the 25 percent cut
is approved, Medicaid to Oregon
w ill be cut by $10 m illio n . Health
services w ill be cut $3.6 m illio n .
Preventive services, $1 million.
That’ s almost $15 m illion less to
be spent on health care in Oregon.
You can’ t tell me that won’ t tear a
hole in the safety net fo r crippled
children, hemophiliacs, the mentally
ill, the m entally retarded, alch-
holics, drug addicts -- and many,
many more Oregonians.
I think it is a sad commentary on
our national p rio ritie s that in the
name o f balancing the budget we are
cutting health care programs while
we continue to subsidize the tobacco
and synthetic fuel industries.
I think it is equally tragic that we
are concentrating our e ffo rts on
thinking o f ways to squeeze all our
health programs into underfunded
block grants when we should be
brainstorm ing about ways to cut
health care costs -- fo r consumers
and for taxpayers.
Although I don’t pretend to have
all the answers, a good place to
begin to cut costs is through im
plementation o f prospective reim
bursement programs that require
health providers to negotiate
reasonable medical care packages in
advance o f treatment - rather than
just handing them a blank check to
fill in afterwards.
If we want a healthy America, we
need healthy Americans. It is in
cumbent on Congress to help ensure
that good health.
Q. Congressman H yden, you
have been quoted as opposing the
Kemp Roth Tax Plan supported by
the Adm inistration. Why? What
would this tax cut mean fo r
Oregonians?
A. In terms o f money, very lit
tle. As a matter of fact, based on the
latest Oregon tax return data, only
slig h tly more than 3 percent o f
Oregon's taxpayers would benefit
from the Administration's tax plan.
That leaves 97 percent who would
not benefit -- and if that’ s not un
fair, I don't know what is.
What Oregon and America need
to get our economy back on track is
a targeted tax cut that benefits all of
our workers -- regardless o f their in
County committee appointments available
M ultnom ah C ounty Executive
Development Advisory Committee;
Don C lark announced M onday,
Emergency M edical Services A d
that vacancies exist on the following
visory C om m ittee; Employees
citizen boards and commissions:
Retirement Board; Juvenile Services
C hild Care Coordinating Coun
Com m ission; M erit System C iv il
cil; C om m unity C orrections A d
Service Council; and the Planning
visory Com m ittee; Economic
Commission.
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Citizens are encouraged to apply
or to recommend appointments to
the C ounty Executive. Interested
persons should write or call Maggie
Pendleton, O ffice o f the C ounty
Executive, 1021 S.W. 4th Avenue,
Portland, Oregon 97204. Phone:
248-3308.
come. What we need is a tax cut that
includes such things as reducing the
marriage tax penalty for two wage-
earner families, protecting middle
income taxpayers from tax bracket
creep, lowering o f inheritance taxes,
removing the tax on interest ear
nings, and lowering taxes for small
business -- which employs 80 per
cent o f America's workers.
Through such a targeted ap
proach, a very high percentage o f
Oregonians could share in the tax
re lie f -- rather than the small
segment that would win out under
Kemp-Roth.
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