Word: healthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anna Price of Washington, catastrophic health care means looking after her husband James, 78, a retired federal worker who has suffered for ten years from Alzheimer's disease. He can neither bathe nor dress himself. She frets about him constantly, and about how she will pay the doctor and the sitter who comes twice a week so she can go out to buy groceries. Even the $25 a month she pays for diaper-like underpants for her incontinent husband is a drain on ( their dwindling life savings, now less than...
Even if his health had not failed, the President would have faced rapidly escalating political problems. Under the constitution, he cannot run for consecutive five-year terms. His Christian Democratic Party is likely to be rejected in presidential elections scheduled for next March. Three months ago, in local balloting that amounted to a referendum on Duarte's performance, the party was trounced by the deeply conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), which gained control of the 60-seat Assembly and won 13 of 14 mayoral races. In San Salvador, the capital, Duarte's son Alejandro was defeated...
...those infected with the AIDS virus from loss of jobs, insurance and housing, and new confidentiality statutes to ensure accurate testing for and reporting of the disease. The draft report, which must be approved by the full commission before it goes to the President, is already being hailed by health professionals and AIDS activists as a courageous national strategy. Says Mathilde Krim, co-founder of the American Foundation for AIDS Research: "It is a comprehensive report. It is a human report. And it is an intelligent report...
...major bulwark against that fear," the report asserts. However, it also establishes clear exceptions to the rule: namely, when there is a need to protect those "who may unknowingly be in immediate danger of being exposed" to the AIDS virus. Among them are victims of sexual assaults, health-care workers who are accidentally exposed and those who may be treating infected individuals...
Watkins proposed education initiatives that "are of such vital importance . . . that they must be implemented immediately," including comprehensive health courses in the schools and a program tailored to minority communities that have been hardest hit by AIDS. The chairman also suggested that the Surgeon General act as the Government's principal spokesman in health-care emergencies, with the authority to forge effective public policy speedily. As if to underscore the urgent tone of Watkins' draft report, the San Francisco department of public health and the federal Centers for Disease Control predicted last week, for the first time, that infection with...