Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 31, 1993, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor David 6977042 focus Winnipeg free press 1cxm october mainstreaming int one Way 1am writing in response to the re cent series of articles published by the free press on the subject of As the Parent of a severely challenged youth and a member of the executive of the autism society of i found the articles info yet limited in their perspex the statistics which abound in articles about mainstreaming Deal with the High financial Cost of these the unwritten conclusion would seem to be that financial Gams increase when special needs students Are not it would be More instructive to seek out statistics about the High Cost of not including them facilities built or converted to House and educate these added Cost to the health care system for parents and care givers taken ill from stress re lated social assistance programs for families who must keep a challenged student at counselling and assistance for Sib Lings whose parents May be exhausted by the care of their disabled letters to the editor 77e free press welcomes letters from letters must be signed and should include a clearly printed address and Telephone names will be published but not All health Reform a Long Road Iii of i Stort Teft Eft teas to be please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg letters can be sent to our fax number whatever Burden the education system feels it pales in com Parison to that borne by the it would seem More for the education system to work with care givers to advocate for better supports within the sys mainstreaming is assumed by Many to be a one Way sensitively it is not it pro Vides reciprocal benefits to All Stu certainly the Hope is that by allocating funds now to train these special needs those Capa ble will contribute to the Economy later by supporting but it must be pointed out that the Stu Dent who has Learned to Cope with the disabled As part of daily life is far less Likely to be discouraged by the care of the disabled and elderly within their own i would support the hiring of aides with medical experience for Handson work and of nurses for supervision of their speech occupational social workers work within the education Why not nurses if then where do the restrictions end do we exclude allergic diabetic hyper Active All of whom might require medication during school hours parents and care givers of Normal children must cease see ing mainstreaming As a them and us it is not an adversarial anyone child can be the victim of disease or the present government is sup posed to be dedicated to greater care of challenged individuals within the mainstream ing would seem to fit easily into such a yet the danger of funding cutbacks looms Over such pro there is most definitely an inconsistency one which can not be Bettejane Taylor Portage la Prairie important step was left out the closeup Section of october 17 focused on business the information provided was excellent for those enterprising individuals wanting to Start out on their a very important step of operating a business was left before anyone starts a they must select a name for that in most the name must be registered in the corporations consumer and corporate room 405 Manitoba r3c although on paper it looked once implemented we quickly found out his major free Trade and tax Reform were unscrupulous policies which went terribly once the Borders to the United states were opened to Canadian companies Many of them quickly discovered that they had to Restruck and update technologies to compete in this powerful new those who could afford this expensive those who thus our loss of hundreds of thousands of tax i the ultimate undoing of the in order to ameliorate their association with big the tories reduced the value added manufacturers sales tax from 13 to 7 per the in the form of the was unloaded off of corporations and right onto the backs of peo ple who could afford it the Ordinary do you think we were about to for get this betrayal not so i Hope you have taken some notes on All do what you will while in Power re Mem should you betray the Trust of the come the end of your term you could find yourself in the same position As Kim Campbell and company banished forever to the wastelands of political the Federal progressive conserva Tive party of Canada is Bra to the right of democracy with ultimate Smith Winnipeg registering Early can eliminate and some Possi Myron Pawlowsky director corporations Branch Winnipeg City Hall goofed big time on zoo it is utterly amazing to me that the City of Winnipeg does not have a debt at least double or triple what it in an article in the free it was stated that income from zoo admissions was below any citizen of Winnipeg could have told City Hall with no More than five seconds thought what the out come would be the residents of Winnipeg would opt for the free tuesday when the offer of free tuesdays was some at City Hall Are saying that the citizens abused that Day be cause it was meant for those who could not afford to pay the admission fee and ways to Stop this abuse would be looked How do you know How Many people can afford to pay the admission could the num ber of people using the food Banks in the City be used As an indicator or perhaps the number of people on welfare and on unemployment insurance Ever heard of the recession How do they propose to do this will citizens have to show their Wel fare cards would citizens have to bring in their tax forms from last year to show eligibility would Citi Zens have to phone ahead to have their eligibility checked by zoo officials or City officials to gain admit Tance to the zoo face it free tuesdays Are free City Hall goofed big time Diane Woods Winnipeg Washington the Clinton administration has set out on its own version of chairman maos 1934 Long aiming to Reform the health system to be like Canadas in one not like it in it took Mao and the communist army a year of desperate hardship to travel Miles to the yellow River and the safety of the caves at it will take president Bill Clinton and his democratic party allies on Capitol Hill a year to fight their Way through the thickets of political and special interest resistance before they can bring health care Reform to a final the army that reached Shenski province in 1935 was not like the one that left Tiangsi province in the legislation that survives to be voted on next fall will not be like the Bill that Clinton hand delivered to Congress last Clinton has already revised his the proposals he unveiled september 22 were changed in Small ways to accommodate some business if Clinton has his the changed health system will provide Universal Access to like Canadas the major difference from Canadas plan will be that there will be no Federal government single payer of medical his proposed financing method is More traditional and less Cost effective than health alliances in his plan would have everyone covered by health those premiums going to health alliances in each state that would negotiate coverage with nurses and with three Levels of care available for different prices and everyone to have a health Security card like canadians his conservative approach to the financing and management of health care Reform reflects a preference for individualism Over communalism makes it difficult to achieve consensus on health Reform the forces arrayed against change in the health care Field Are so enormous that getting into Law even part of his plan will demand political skills of the highest scores of health Reform Bills were already on the table on Capitol Hill when Clinton but there now Are three major themes on introduced by Minnesota democratic senator Paul would offer Universal coverage and have a Canadia style single payer meaning government insurance coverage for paid out of general tax a second Given various forms by Republican would make health insurance available and help the poor to buy it by offering them tax credits and the would require All employers to pay for health insurance for their requiring All those not eligible for such coverage to buy a policy through health insurance purchasing Clinton holds a copy of condensed version of his health plan while speaking on Capitol Washington editor David Macdonald Wellstone would pay for his plan by imposing a payroll tax of per cent on two per cent on a tobacco tax of Uncertain size would raise More republicans would pay for their plans by limiting tax deductions for premiums above a certain level and by cutting funds or raising premiums for two existing health care called medicare and which provide partial coverage for the old and the Clinton would pay for his plan by making employers and employees pay Premium costs at the rate of 80 per cent and 20 per Federal government subsidies would help Small Low income workers and the these subsidies would be paid for by a one per cent payroll tax on employers with or More limits on tax deductibility of premiums above a certain cuts in spending on medicare and medicaid and a 75cents a pack increase in tax on that would make the Federal tax on cigarettes 99 cents a other tobacco products would get an equivalent tax As things 89 members of the 435member House of representatives like the Wellstone various Republican plans have Good support among some conservative democrats and some on the Day Clinton arrived with his 30 of 100 senators and 43 House members cosponsored the conservatism in Clinton plan is that it builds on the existing system of employer provided health insurance that was a product of the postwar when employers had to compete for similarly conservative is the corollary automatic acceptance of the existing system of insurance one reason accepting that system Means accepting one reason for the soaring costs of medical care in the United health insurance companies each offer different use different standards to decide which medical conditions will be covered and employ Many thousands of people to handle each company different claim that forces doctors and hospitals to employ clerks to handle the paperwork involved in claims to insurance it forces Consumers to fill in detailed forms and involves them in lengthy disputes when insurance company employees swoop on tiny errors and use them to delay or deny in this Clinton caution is Good All those thousands of insurance company including those paid to interrogate by phone sick people calling to ask for permission to Check into have like former Manitoba premiered who defused opposition to aut Opac by deciding that Auto insurance agents were needed after Clinton is avoiding the protests he might have faced if his plan had bypassed private this is an example of the Good political stick handling that Clinton s going to have to display at every stage during the Long year armed struggle still stumbling Block liberals should learn from tories 1 Hope the Liberal party has Learned a valuable lesson after the recent Federal election defeat of the progressive what was once a Power House has now been reduced to a Mere trickle of disconcerted voices in the House of Why did this happen like Chretien had an Agenda for canadians which was successfully peddled in the Federal articles Well done i had grown weary of Lindor Rey nolds continual rehashing of the same old cliches i am a confirmed no Hunter and non Jock so my reaction was not merely out of Hurt i nearly passed Over her series of articles on cult Leader David Koress mothering i did Reynolds is to be commended for her sensitivity and sympathy in responding to the human pain rather than the lurid Well Casey Snow Lake by Stephen Rosenfeld the Washington Post Washington the reach for reconciliation in such heretofore improbable places As South Africa and the Middle East has prompted to search for similar breakthrough possibilities it is a Wor thy inquiry that ought to be con ducted but As the example of Northern Ireland it has to be conducted wisely talk with the among former British prime minis Ter Edward who 20 years ago i conclusively if Israel can sit Down with the Palestine liberation organization and South Africa with the african National then the British can sit Down with their own terrorist the Irish re publican or so this disarm ugly plausible line crucial element the Plo had formally abandoned terrorism when it got to sit Down with the who needed some years to Register this traumatic development in their poli tics and the Anc was mov ing the same Way to accept coexist ence As an end and dialogue As a Means in dealing with the ruling while South this Readi Ness to abandon armed struggle for political manoeuvre and demo cratic practice is the crucial ele ment still missing from the policy of the the Ira appears to remain dedicated to forcibly ousting the British from their Sovereign territory in Northern its purpose goes qualitatively beyond any attempt to serve the urgent and sofar unmet goals of fair equal Protection and More local autonomy for the Catholic but brits out would almost certainly precipitate open and escalating War Between catholics and the protestant this could easily Dwarf the paramilitary terror protestant As Well As that has taken More than lives in Northern Ireland since it is morally As a practical brits out is also politically the financial times Joe Rogalny observes that despite the fearsome death toll and a parallel Money Cost Topping the British electorate still stands firmly behind maintaining the British presence in Northern Imperial arro some might a demo cratic Peoples refusal to Bow to a minority violence explains it bet cd Landrun is not but How to move beyond a bloody and unrewarding test of wills currently attention is focused on John the much praised mod Erate nationalist Catholic Leader of Northern Hume has been trying to draw in Gerry head of the iras political sinn out of the terrorist but the terrorism Issue remains a hard just on wednesday Adams served As a pallbearer for an Ira guerrilla blown the act of kill ing 10 Belfast Conor cruise columnist for the largest Irish faults Hume him self for not going beyond denunciation of violence to urge catholics to cooperate with the Security in april Hume and Adams embraced National self determination for All Ireland a formula Obrien criticizes As deny ing legitimacy to Northern n september Hume and Adams announced agreement on what is still secret but is de scribed As a peace its Uncertain what the Humeau ams connection can contribute to the continuing talks on the future of Northern Ireland Between the British and Irish governments and the constitutional parties in North Ern Obrien locates the bottleneck in talks in the Irish re i Public refusal so under John Humes to Back off constitutional claims to reintegrate Northern anathema to protestants living to be optimistic about bargaining is in an Early some would use the existing dead lock As an interlude in which to exploit the deep popular revulsion against terrorism on both the fact that protestants Are now doing More killing than catholics could re move the inhibiting ant Catholic la Bel from such a give police the Powers they will need to put both sets of terrorist leaders out of Busi Obrien and others and politics could have a Many people take the nihilistic View that the hatreds in Ireland Are tribal and beyond political repair Bosnia Many people used to say the same about South Africa and the Middle those while not Are first Stop the then tackle the grief you cant bring in the Ira be fore it has followed the example of the Plo and Anc and clearly no word no no backslide m Oil toe like the afrikaners and the is the iras British antagonists must ;