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"I EEL THEY hould put a
limit on 80 pirin rather than
coverage," he'd.
Aexx>rding to th Michigan In­
uranceFederation(MIF), nin­
urance lobbying group, 259
people ha ceeded 1 million
in claims over the p t 15 y
However, Cooper ys it
tim for the ape of
strophic injury to build up ince
often it i a life-long condition.
Philip Co tello, member of
the firm Braunlich, R nd
Braunlich PC in Monroe, . d
that the chan will
Gene O'Malley, regional pub­
lic affai manager for State
Farm! rance,oneofth larg-
auto insurers in the s te,
said individuals are more li ely
to have something catastrophic
happen outside an automobile,
yet they are not. covered to th
degree of auto insurance.
He aid that despite the
changes under the new Ia ,
Michigan' auto insurance will
continue to be more than ade­
quate.
"Michigan coverage is by far
the best and will remain that
way,· OMalley said.
ance:
Provid
rates
Limits rate 1l. lCl1 ....
Reduces tb
unlimited roverage to 1 milUon
AlIo motorists topurc:b.8f1e
company offers it
• Requires di OOUD for
anti-lock brakes
• Prohibits dri bo aN b) t
from mllec:ting for pain and sulmiDR
• ts are limited iD a 5
ist's co
HE SAID THE company
supports the new law and be­
lieves oonsumers will be better
served. He also said that State
Farm has felt all along that
changes needed to be made but
in a forum different than the
popular vote of Proposal D.
'''We didn't support Proposal
. D and we' didn't reject it," he
said. "We felt issues needed to be
weighed and discussed in' the
Legislature. It's a case where
each side can distort' ues.·
Dave Cooper of Coo er,
.&iI1¥J411' and Mohr PC in Tecpm­
seh said the insurance reform
merely rehash the same issu
Anema haun Bomani, director of the Malcolm X Commun'ty Center (0 and Kw me K nyatta,
Detroit Public School Boatd Member (r) presented award to Bennie and Edna White for their
arti tic contributions in the Detroit community. Kwame Kenyatta wa the gue t speaker t
the Awar Ceremony Kwanzaa Ball.
ic goal
health reform
On February 24, the Surgeon
General's Statement on Adoles­
cence and Smoking will be made
public as justification to raise
taxes on tobacco products to help
finance various aspects of the'
Clinton health care. delivery
plan
APPOINTED THE 16
United States Surgeon General
on September 8, 1993, Dr. Eld­
ers manages the 6,000 member
Public Health Service's Commis­
sioned Corp and is involved'
with the Public Health Services
Offices of Population Affairs, Mi­
nority Health and Women's
Health and the President's
Council on Physical Fitn and
Sports.
Making children's health
needs her top priority, Dr. Eld­
ers t though portions of
th reform plan need fuller dis­
cu ion, "our children can't wait
while we debate. Entire commu­
nities will have to give of them­
selves to offeryoungpeopl hope
and well- ing for the future.
We must pu prevention first.
Pa nts arid eache will have
to be educated on how to moti­
vate young people to feel good
about themselves so they can be­
come responsible adults.
Ministers need to stop moral­
izing from th pulpit and get out
in the and help children
recapture their li . We have
got to prevent the problems e
ignoring with early child­
hood education especially for
those at ris Other eountri
pend far more than the United
States to keep people healthy,·
she declared.
By CAROLYN WARFIELD
S ecl.' to the Michl an Cltlzef!_ _ _
"Comprehensive health edu­
cation must become a major fo­
cus if America is. going to rebuild
its neighborhoods and communi­
ties," Dr. Joycelyn Elders,
United States Surgeon General,
said during community ad-
oounty.
ADDRESS NG problems
specific to urban health, Dr. Eld­
ers cites horrific statistics on the
general status of the nation's
public health:
Every 64 seconds, an infant
is born to a teenage mother.
,
, M.D., first African-American United States Sur-
Of the 12 million people
who acquire a sexually transmit­
ted disease, 65 percent are
younger than 25 years of age.
'I'hi rty percent of high
school students indulge in binge
drinking
Half of the country' poor in
1992 w ith r children under
18 an h Iderly.
E ry day, 14 young peopl
. a 19 and under a killed in
gun ci n , uicide and
homi id
_J The U S. homicide rat
among young men is four tim
high rna in 0 h r industrial­
iz countri : two tim high r
for WID 1 and forty im
high r bla mal
W FIr arm cau e 35,000
d ths annually.
d at Butler and Indiana
Universiti January 24. "Since
health is a social i u, it i r­
ally a matter of social justi ."
Dr. Elde is currently work­
ingwith the Department ofEdu­
cation to put togeth r a program.
for Health Care Reform that will
provide funds for health clinics
in schools across America for
children a 10 to 19.
As the former dire roth
Arkansas Depar m nt of
Health, Dr. Elde incr h
number of early childhood
s nings from 4,000 in 1 to
45,000 in 1992; incre im-
munization rat for 2-y r-olds
from 34 percent 1 n 19 9 to 0
per nt in r992� and exp d
HIV testing nd counseling
i to in lude e ry .. rka
. know th.u Of a lr t of r)(:() I·. the nu-n an dr -arn of t u ing a h m . rns lik
an irnpo .hl· r '.1111- until now .\t Com 'fica. w« \ . d '''Ign '0 J n -w me rtgage aff rdahility
program wh -rc th ' lip frc nt () h .rr . "urpn'lmgh ic)\\ In f.l<. t. your ( UH f-pc 'k t xperu
I I· th.in halt of wh,u mo-t lender r -quir '. And. It' a gr 'at wa tc take advanta f
t()dJ� I \\ tnt -r ·.,t rate-, 'I () Imd out how vou . n turn Y iur dr 'Jill Into r ality, ju t all
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