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Sapulpa DMy Herald, Wednesday. Feb. 28. 2007 — PAGE FIV E
Health
Governors seek help from congress for children’s health care
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Governors from both parties
are opposing President
Bush’s budget for a health
care program that insures
millions of children of the
working poor, warning that
failure to meet its spending
needs will inflate the already
high number of uninsured.
The budget dispute domi-
nated discussions among
governors Sunday, who
promised to bring the matter
to Bush and his C ivinet offi-
cials at private meetings
Monday.
At stake is coverage for 6
million people, overwhelm-
ingly children, as well as the
hopes of many governors in
tackling the larger challenge
of the uninsured. All gover-
nors rely on the State
Children’s Health Insurance
Program, intended to aid
uninsured working families.
“It’s a matter of doing the
right thing.” said Georgia
Gov. Sonny Perdue, a
Republican. “It’s nonparti-
san. It’s bipartisan."
Gov. Jon Corzine, a New
Jersey Democrat, warned
that the administration’s
budget promised illusory
savings. “You end up paying
for this in other ways —
uncompensated care, emer-
gency rooms.” Corzine said.
This is pay me now or pay
me later "
Georgia and New Jersey
are two of 14 states that are
expected to run out of money
for the program before the
next budget year begins in
October, in Georgia, it could
happen as soon as March
The governors want two
things:
—Enough money to keep
the program afloat through
October. That is estimated at
$745 million.
—Changes to Bush's
budget. Analysts say his
spending plan would short-
change the health program
even if the number of people
served did not grow. The
longterm shortfall is put at
$10 billion to $15 billion
over the next five years.
Health and Human
Services Secretary Mike
Leavitt said he had met pri-
vately with governors, and
would keep talking. But he
offered little hope that the
administration would accept
governors’ demands.
Bush welcomed the gov-
ernors to a formal dinner at
the White House Sunday
night and said he looked for-
ward to talking with gover-
nors about health care, along
with homeland security and
immigration. “I believe if we
work together we can do a lot
of good things." he said.
The program, approved in
1997. covers uninsured chil-
dren whose families earn too
much to fall under Medicaid,
the joint state-federal health
care service for the poor
More than a dozen states
have expanded SCHIP. with
consent of the federal gov-
ernment. to cover adults in
those families. The program
now insures an estimated
See HEALTH, fbge 6
Study says military mental
health system ‘stressed out’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Iraq
war soldiers, veterans and their families
are not getting needed psychological help
because a stressed military's mental health
system is overwhelmed and understaffed,
a task force of psychologists found.
The panel's 67-page report calls for the
immediate strengthening of the military
mental health system. It cites a 40 percent
vacancy rate in active duty psychologists
in the Army and Navy, resources diverted
from family counselors and a weak transi-
tion for veterans leaving the military.
The findings were released Sunday by
the American Psychological Association.
More than three out of 10 soldiers met
the criteria for a “mental disorder." but far
less than half of those in need sought help,
the report found. Sometimes that’s
because of the stigma of having mental
health pnvblems. other times the help sim-
ply wasn't available, according to the task
force. And there are special difficulties in
getting help to National Guard and
Reserve troops, who have been used heav-
ily in Iraq, the report said.
The special task force found no evi-
dence of a "well-coordinated or well-dis-
seminated approach to providing behav-
ioral health care to service members and
their families."
The psychology task force, chaired by
an active military psychologist and com-
prised of psychologists working for the
military or Veterans Administration, said
“relatively few high-quality" mental
health programs exist in the military now.
“There are tremendous needs: the sys-
tem is stressed by these needs." said pedi-
atric psychologist Jeanne Hoffman, a task
force member and a civilian pediatric psy-
chologist at Tripler Army Medical Center
in Honolulu.
The Defense Department's mental
health experts hadn’t read the report.
Pentagon spokeswoman Cynthia Smith
said the military is proud of its mental
health services record, including a new
program this year that checks up on serv-
ice members after they return home to
their families.
“For the past four years. DOD has been
aggressively reaching out to support our
military personnel before and after
deployments. This is unprecedented."
Smith said in an e-mail to The Associated
Press. "We have assessed the health,
including the mental health of more than 1
million service members before and after
deployments. We have worked with their
families and others to address mental
health concerns associated with deploy-
ments and with war.’’
One of the major problems is that four
out of 10 "active duty licensed clinical
psychologist" slots in the Army and Navy
are not filled, a problem worsened by the
dire need to send mental health experts
into war zones, the report said.
That high vacancy rate has several side
effects. One is that the psychologists left
are overwhelmed, the report said. It found
that one-third of Army mental health per-
sonnel reported “high bum out" and 27
percent reported "low motivation for their
work."
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NORMAN. Okla. (AP) —
Norman Regional Health
System's last-minute bid on
Monday proved to be the
winning offer for cash-
strapped Moore Medical
Center.
Norman Regional Health,
which runs Norman Regional
Hospital, purchased the 45-
bed. acute-care facility for
$34,250,000. Originally con-
sidered the second-place bid-
der for the facility. Norman
Regional officials’ new offer
came in more than $2 million
higher than the $32 million
bid by Integris Health
System.
Higher bids of $55 million
from Acadiana Healthcare
and $49 million from Moore
Medical Holdings LLC-
Oklahoma Healthcare LLC,
failed.
Norman Regional Health
System chief David Whitaker
said the company will close
the deal on Wednesday.
“Once we close and take
possession, those employees
will be part of our system.”
Whitaker said.
Built in 2005 and opened
later <h*t year, the Moore
Medical Center never gener-
ated a pfdfit. Constructed1
with a multi-million dollar
loan underwritten by a feder-
al Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) pro-
gram. the hospital was part of
The Schuster Group, the
Oklahoma City healthcare
company that built and man-
aged the facility.
Moore Medical filed for
bankruptcy protection Oct.
28, and Schuster Group
sought bankruptcy protection
for itself a short time later
U S. bankruptcy judge
T.M. Weaver, who had been
overseeing the case,
approved the sale.
“We’re pleased this has
ended in a way to allow the
hospital to continue to oper-
ate." Weaver said.
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