Kennedy Shriver’s Special Olympics sparked broad social change
Editorial honors Eunice Kennedy Shriver for founding the Special Olympics which grew from a 100 participant Chicago event to serve over 3 million globally. The piece highlights reduced stigma, expanded programs, and real job and health opportunities for developmentally disabled people, noting local examples in Ottawa and Burlington and a 1995 appearance in New Haven.
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Eunice Kennedy-Shriver
Chicago
Kennedy-Shriver
Rosemary
Camp Shriver
United States
Ottawa
COF
Burlington
Danny Kuhlman
13Th
Ash Streets
Kuhlman
New Haven
Conn
Dan Andrews
U.S
Wellsville district tightens budgets amid No Child Left Behind pressures
Denise O'Dea, superintendent, notes funding cuts in Kansas from 2005 to 2010 while maintaining No Child Left Behind goals. The district, with 124 staff and 885 students this year, reports higher health costs and staffing to sustain AYP and standards of excellence despite reduced state aid and increased enrollments.
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Wellsville
Kansas
Letter to Congress on Health Care Reform Critique
A citizen decries the Washington health care bill as a travesty harming patients and providers. He notes underestimated costs and reduced personal freedom, cites media and opinion writers favoring universal coverage, and contrasts uninsured rates with infant mortality and life expectancy in light of spending. He references a National Center for Policy Analysis paper comparing international approaches.
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Dear Son
Roberts
Rep
Jenkins
Washington
National Center For Policy Analysis
Reader Forum On Health Reform And Its Hidden Costs
A physician argues reforms raise patient and physician freedom losses. He traces Medicare limits in 1983 and managed care failures to higher costs, cites infant mortality contrasts in Europe, notes rising reviewers and uninsured, and warns of an expanding, surveilled system echoing Orwell.
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Kansas Foundation For Medical Care
George Orwell
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