immunizations wait in doctors
but don't get their hots
. use their families can't af­
f9rd the co t of v ccines. Many
famili , including tho e with
private health insurance (which
en do n' t cover v ccines) are
r I ferred to overcrowded public
clinics for immunization.
The Children's Defense Fund
has urged Congress and President
Clinton to support a comprehen­
ive immunization program that
is both cost-effective and respon-
ive to children's needs. The pro­
po al, designed to immunize
e ery child in America, includes
universal purchase and critical
investments in public outreach,
education and service delivery to
ens ure that vaccination can be
administered at the community
level.
WHILE TmS PLAN may
generate controversy, I want you
to know about it because every­
one who is or who has a child will
be affected.
Un r a comprehe ion i -
mu p ;e bAn! .... ��
would be remov to. provide all
American children acces to bet­
ter health. We would no longer
fail to immunize children be­
cause they can't afford the vac­
cines, their insurance doesn't
cover immunization or public
heal th clinics have inadequate re­
source. Instead, the federal gov­
ernment would purchase
childhood vaccine from manu­
facturers and distribute it to
health providers, free of charge.
This is an economically sound
investment; every dollar we
pend immunizing a child today
saves $10 in foregone health
costs for treating preventable ill­
ness later. And like fluoridated
water, fire protection and rodent
control, vaccinations would be
recognized as a service we pay
for as, a nation in advance, sup­
port through progressive taxe ,
deliver to ourselves for our own
protection and recoup the invest­
ment many times over.
The cost to fully immunize a
hild ha climbed from less than
11 to over 230 in the past dec­
ade. Who profits from this? The
giant drug companies, who urge
that a universal purchase sy tem
will cut so de-eply into their prof­
it that the research and develop­
ment of new vaccines would
suffer. But any new vaccines the
companies develop would be in-
luded in the niversal system
and a fair price established that
over. research and development
co
The d III & ompanies argue,
nd �ve agree that universal vac­
I ein purchase alone will not solve
the problem. In order to immu­
nize all children in America, we
ne d clinics doctors and nurses
to adrru ni ter the vaccines at
time that are convenient for
w rking parent as well as pub-
li education and outreach cam­
pai ns to en ourage parents to'
immunize th If children. And we
ne d t e tabli h a ystem to
monitor hildreu' vaccination
t tus. But the e steps won't
vork without universal purchase
fv inesOnty state thathave
uruve al purch and tracking
. nu utreacb y tem have u-c­
cc . fully rai ed their immuniza­
u n rate.
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YOPP COG IZED one pe­
cific qu tion citize had: If little
children knew where the drug ho
were, why weren't police able to do
something about them?
In response he said that in er to
make arres , it w neces ary to
prove criminal guilty. Such drug
hous could not be searched without
awanant.
Mayor Porter said the police m' t
have priorities to which crim
they were uppo ed to' respond to
first. He ugg ted that perhaps
someone may have been murdered
on aootber treet.
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