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- <text id=93TT0969>
- <title>
- Feb. 22, 1993: Pounds of Prevention
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 22, 1993 Uncle Bill Wants You
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 20
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- Pounds of Prevention
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>The Clintons promote childhood vaccinations--and blast drug
- makers
- </p>
- <p> Finally, President Bill Clinton has unveiled a program not likely
- to be controversial: a $300 million initiative to spur vaccinations
- against childhood diseases. About half of U.S. two-year-olds
- have not received all their shots; in the western hemisphere,
- only Bolivia and Haiti have poorer records. The money will create
- a national system to keep track of immunizations and will enable
- public clinics to work longer hours and buy more vaccines. Clinton
- stopped short, though, of a $700 million proposal to guarantee
- free shots to all kids.
- </p>
- <p> The drive to immunize is a priority of Hillary Rodham Clinton's.
- At a conference in Pennsylvania, the First Lady chided drug
- firms for raising vaccine prices more than tenfold since 1981.
- The next day President Clinton echoed that theme, charging drugmakers
- with seeking "profits at the expense of our children." The companies
- say high prices result from product-liability suits aimed at
- the industry.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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