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<text id=93TT1695>
<title>
May 17, 1993: Going for a Much Lower Dosage
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<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
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<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>
</body>
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