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Both were evident last week. Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler testified on Capitol Hill for a bill providing for enforcement of child-support payments. A group of Republican Congresswomen met with White House staffers to discuss child-support and pension reform. Schneider called the meeting "a significant signal that the White House is serious" about portions, at least, of the Economic Equity Act. This is a complex package of legislation on pension reform, tax relief, insurance discrimination and child-care issues developed by the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues...
...become more common and take an even greater toll as the U.S. population continues to age. On July 1, the U.S. reached a milestone: for the first time there are more Americans over 65 (27.4 million) than teen-agers (26.5 million). In March, Health and Human Resources Secretary Margaret Heckler created a special AD task force and proposed to increase federal funds for AD research to $25 million in 1984, up from $17 million in 1981. Says Heckler: "Every breakthrough we achieve is a step toward the reuniting of families and friends, the lifting of the veil of confusion...
Nevertheless, Heckler stressed to the patients that "AIDS is our No. 1 health concern and the epidemic is our No. 1 priority." Her department, which includes CDC and NIH, is spending $14 million on AIDS research this year and requesting $12 million more. Some gay activists have charged that the Reagan Administration is neglecting AIDS because it primarily affects homosexuals. (In fact, the money allocated to AIDS research so far is greater than the $20 million spent over eight years on toxic shock syndrome and Legionnaire's disease.) Heckler's department also publishes a biweekly bulletin reporting the findings...
Despite the concern about the death and suffering of its victims, and despite the lack of any solution so far, health officials are optimistic that science will eventually conquer AIDS. "We've beaten other diseases, and we're determined to beat this one too," says HHS Secretary Heckler...
...Heckler's opinion, which is shared by many medical detectives, is rooted in a century of victories over diseases whose ravages once shaped the course of history. Only a few decades ago, fear of a polio outbreak could empty schools; victims in iron lungs would be put on exhibit in small towns to raise money for the March of Dimes. All that is history...