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4 Ikmlngkam PiiNcioldf Mnidoyf Fcbmoiy 1S 1993 Nation Mrs Clinton tries to fix huge health care sore Inbreeding all bad Study shows Child death rates increase slightly task force has to market as well as form policy combine with said policy wi nme ranking with 69 percent ranking it a issue One of the first meetings the Clintons convened on health care last month brought in representatives of several consumer groups think tanks to discuss public per-i of the problem i now and early May Mrs rcvcra hhmu and pollsters ceptionofthe Between not Bush receives an autograph game in nis a private citizen gives Bush a Houston Rockets Former President George adopted hometown Ufa as request whfie attending a chance to get out of the more-oHess private citizen Citizen Bush now orders picks up his own barbecue By Lee Bowman Icrlppi Howard Nmtevlet WASHINGTON an almost impossible task that President Clinton has assigned Ms wife: in little more than three months find a way to fix a health care system than been breaking down for decades Working with six Cabinet secretaries and several senior White House aides and backed by more than 300 advisers and analysts Hillary Rodham Clinton actually faces two tough jobs Besides coming tm with a plan to provide and pay for basic health care coverage for all Americans she must also stoke public and political support for reforms that may change the way almost everyone attends to their health Until recently the rallying cry for health care reform has been the lack of coverage for as many as 37 million Americans forcing them to either count on charity or sink into poverty to become eligible for often marginal care under Medicaid But Mrs Clinton knows the war is going to be won in the hearts and wallets of a middle class that for the most part has insurance but is worried about whether that coverage is adequate too costly or likely to be withdrawn at the whim of corporate or job loss or transfer She talks about the i of personal vulnerability ana personal insecurity because of the way the health care system has failed There appears to be widespread concern about health care with voters ranking it behind the economy and the deficit on election night polling in November: In December Gallup survey 150' pew and returning members of Congress gave it the SYLVAN CAN HELP YOUR Clinton and Tipper Gore the vice wife active in mental health issues will be touring the country partly to solicit ideas about reform But mostly they will try to sell the need for change to voters in key states especially those whose lawmakers may resist a major overhaul There will be a parallel drive sup-the Democratic National ittee The product they are pushing is generic change because aides insist the final work of Mrs health task force be ready for several months But as with the economic plan there will be a call to sacrifice People may be asked to give up tax aedn health expenses and per hi accept limits on which hospitals doctors they cai White House aides also note Motions on expenses and perhaps can use Senior that whatever plan Clinton gets through Congress may not solve all problems at once ana may be open to changes or amendments in a ear or two Administration officials are det- rate to avoid repeats of the Carter ite House's failed efforts to contain hospital costs and even more the humilia: gressandthe withdraw a i surance plan for this elderly that been carefully screened and sold by advocates for the aging CHILD MAKE THE GRADE jMMFM BOSTON Marriages between first and second cousins pose suprk little risk to children and laws such marriages probably' abolished researchers said yesterday Marriages between cousins are common especially in parts of Asia and Africa where as many as half of the marriages are between cousins said Alan Bittles of the University of London One such region is the Punjab province in Pakistan where Bittles found that childhood death rates were about 16 percent in marriages of unrelated people compared to about 21 percent in marriages between cousins most of which were marriages between first cousins A study in Japan likewise found only small increases in death and disease rates in children of marriages between first cousins A study of Mormons by Lynn Janie of the University of Utah did find however that children of first-cousin marriages were 70 percent more likely to die before age 16 than were children of marriages between unrelated people The researchers said they could not explain the discrepancy in the findings Jbrde said that inbreeding was common among Mormons at one time but almost is nonexistent now The studies reported at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science also suggest that inbreeding might have advantages over the long term said Dr James Ned of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor the author of the study in Japan is not a bad Ned sald a population with in-breeding you are flushing out a higher proportion of deleterious genes than in a population that is not be said "There is much more inbreeding than ever he said "There are ill effects but mutably been exaggerated in the Laws against inbreeding should be abolished Bittles said and Ned agreed "Those laws were not passed for biological Neel said was some religious Edwards From pageBl say he died of an overdose But as many drugs as seen David do pretty hard for me to figure Edwards has experienced his share of the excesses of rock star-dom It took several trips to rehab for him to beat his own (bug habit His first two marriages (one was to Ruth Printer of the Pointer Sisters) ended divorce Now living in St Louis with his Jhird wife Dornia and their 7-month-old daughter Denise Edwards believes his life is finally in order even thinking about moving back-to Birmingham once he retires from touring AaodatidPrai 1 HOUSTON Life as a private citizen has given George Bush a chance to get out of the and do something else while living in the White pick up his own takeout lunch "He give us a said Fannie Coleman who worka at Barbecue When Bush showed up earlier this month to pick up a order of ifaka half beef beans and a Did he came with only two other men Ms Coleman said Bush has followed his plan to keep a low profile granting no interviews and just one photo opportunity since coming to Texaj after President Clinton inauguration Jan 20 Tourists cruise through his new neighborhood eager for a glimpse of the home he and wife Barbara are renting while their new house is built on an adjacent lot super said Robert Koster a plumbing contractor working on their new home "I was so impressed by them I even tell you what they mid I was kind of in awe of talking to them But they were very Bush was seen at a recent Houston Rockets-Chicago Bulls basketball game with his son Neil His "This is Edwards said was born right over there at TCI They call it that now But let me tell you something this is home "The people here are so much more real than people up north At least if they hate you down here they tdl you they hate An only child Edwards has learned the value of family even when there is no blood relation BEAUTIFUL EYEBROWS PERMANENTLY FREE BROCHURE 939-3939 i Personal Achievement Center Sylvan Builds Motivation Self-Esteem SucrrM Stsdy Hftfl good Ron Pollack executive director of Families USA a nonprofit consumer group long concerned about skyrocketing health care costs But there is concern at the WMte House that development of i tions occur quickly and red involvement of interest representing the health care industry Thus actual sifting of options is bring left to a bevy of working groups and clusters 28 at Ian count drawn from experts within various government agencies and Congress and dozens of theorists and consultants on loan from academia For instance one group has gathered experts from every government agency that collects statistics on health more than 30 in all from HHS to the Pentagon together for the first time They will noth share information and try to standardize how they collect it bringing out really knowledgeable people who have been stashed in casements all over town for the past dozen years and no one has asked them what they said Bob Boorstin a spokesman for the task force eventually lay their find-Cllnton's panel and the president who will make the fl nal calls on the legislai to Capitol Hill in mid-May tion to be sent IBARCA1N MATINEES! 6mOWOOO HUlVAL- CAUfi I ATE SHOWS fcl SAT WMOWrtor CAMfSiA moivm' 4 Taking Care of Business! 1 order over the phone and they defiver a tot easierandmore conventeni with my work schedule" Suzanne Doruella Legal Secretary If yousee an identical Item advertised at a tower price show us tha currant advertisement and you'H get the lower price plus 80 of ths difference as a credit toward your purchase when you buy (ram us (maximum $50 creal) Ad errore closeouts end clearances do not qualify and spend some time as a staff arranged for pictures to be taken dining a visit by Turkish President Turgut OzaL His spokesman Andrew Maner fends off calls from the media and others seeking the attention saying Bush wants his privacy has basically been just going over the mounds of mail mat Maner said just received so many speaking requests appearances af promotional things charity things I think more than any of us expected hundreds and Bush also has been spending ilanning Ms presidential library to be Built at Texas AAM time pli University in College Station about 100 miles northwest of Houston He normally is at his office by 8 ajn and stays until 6 pm Maner said He has declined to comment on the Clinton administration or other political matters emphasising he wants to remain a private dozen Secret Service agents accompany Bush in his silver Cadillac on the two blocks from home to his office at the Park Laureate a nine-story building where he occupies the penthouse I up I used to think it was real nice bring an only he said' you get rider and pretty soon you 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