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The Lance January 26,1990 Page White Continued from pg-1 health care, yet 35 million fx?ople have no health care insurance of any kind. West Germany and Japan spend less that half of that amount per person. White stated that medical inflation runs about twice that of general inflation. 40% of medical costs spient on the aging is spent during the last year of life. The issue of AIDS, ac cording to White, threatens to swamp these other issues. For example, the state of Florida is spending 10% of its annual $35 million health care budget this year on AIDS alone. This $35 mil lion will increase to $2 to $2.5 billion in the next five years. — Computer models show that by 1994 10% of the population will be infected with the AIDS virus, accord ing to statistics provided by the conference. As many heterosexuals are expected to contract the disease as homosexuals. Statistics show that the number of AIDS cases has doubled every 12-13 months. BY the year 1993, AIDS is expected to be the number one cause of death in the United States for persons 17-55 years of age. there will be more deaths from AIDS annually than the total number of casualties in the Vietnam War, and more from AIDS than from automobile acci dents, suicides, and ho- mocides. "The possi bility of getting AIDS may sound remote to a student at St. Andrews, but statistics show that 3 out of every 1,000 college students tested are HIV positive," said White. "Who gets what health care, at what cost, and who will pay for it will be the responsibility of ev eryone, and this is impor tant to realize," he said. Dr. White, a nationally recognized authority in the field of Biomedical Ethics, stated that the purpose of the conference was to get as much input as possible from as many diversified groups as possible. Although there are no clear-cut answers to many of the issues dis cussed at the conference. White stated that several applied conclusions were reached. The first conclu sion is that the crisis is the cost of health care is not a media event, but a major problem of public policy. The second is than an at tempt to reach a public con sensus on these policies will have to take place, or the powerful ones in our society will make these crucial deci sions. A third conclusion is that the states alone can no longer deal with these is sues, and therefore a federal policy must be shaped. White stated that he was impressed by the over whelming complexity of the problems discussed at the conference. "I feel good however that we have knowledgeable people giv ing their opinions and seri ously tJking about the prob lems that are facing us as a society," said White. Gordon Weaver, head of the Creative Writing Department at Oklahoma University will appear at the Fortner Writers' Forum FOURTEEN FEISTY FLINGS FOR A BRAND NEW DECADE! The Fortner Writers' Forum St. Andrews Presbyterian College Spring Term, 1990...Our 21st year! Readings are Thursday nights at 8:00 in Mecklenburg Lounge, unless otherwise advertised. Open Mike will follow guest readings, time permitting, and there will be several non- Thursday Open Mikes. All readings are free and open to the public. February 8: Jackson Norton of Washington, DC Tom Patterson of Winston-Salem February 15: Don Mager & Johnson C. Smith Poets of Charlotte February 22: Bobby G. Price of Goldsboro author of Visualize March 1: Rebecca McClannahan of Charlotte author of Mrs. Houdini March 8: Grace Gibson of Laurinburg author of Drakes Beach , March 15: Robert Malloy & Martl\a Gibson of Laurinburg March 22: Spring Break (No Forum) March 29: Gordon Weaver of Oklahoma State U. creator of Neddie Hacke April 5: Marie Gilbert of Winston-Salem author of Myrtle Beach Back When April 12: Marty Silverthorne of Williamston author of Dry Skin Messiah April 19: Brainerd Chapman of Chapel Hill author of Dreamcruise April 26: Gladys Hughes of Elon author of A Cell: A Door May 3: 1990 Chapbook Winners May 10: Senior Reading Ingrid Scholz, Director Robert Dempster & Dan Auman, Associates Ron Bayes, Writer-in-Residence
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