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- <text id=93TT1695>
- <title>
- May 17, 1993: Going for a Much Lower Dosage
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 17, 1993 Anguish over Bosnia
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 24
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- Going for a Much Lower Dosage
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Clinton cuts back on his plan to pay for vaccines for all
- children
- </p>
- <p> Faced with strenuous opposition from the drug industry and
- newly emboldened Republicans in Congress, President Clinton
- scaled down his plan, announced last month, for the government
- to finance immunization shots for all American children,
- regardless of their families' ability to pay. The Administration
- now proposes to supply free vaccines only to youngsters who are
- on Medicaid or who are uninsured. Even so trimmed, said Clinton,
- the proposal is still "a big advance over where we are."
- </p>
- <p> About half the nation's two-year-olds are not fully
- immunized against mumps, measles, polio, whooping cough and five
- other childhood diseases. But critics said Clinton's original
- proposal, at $1.1 billion, was too costly and that parents'
- failure to take youngsters to public clinics, where free shots
- are already available, was more to blame than steep vaccine
- prices. Administration officials have acknowledged that among
- the major problems are clinic hours that are too short and lines
- that are too long.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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