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Federal judge dismisses gay discrimination lawsuith
DALLAS (AP) — A federal judge on Thurs
day dismissed a discrimination suit filed by the
Dallas Gay Alliance and five plaintiffs against a
public hospital in connection with AIDS treat
ment.
Judge Barefoot Sanders ruled that the alliance
take nothing in its suit against Parkland Memo
rial Hospital and ordered it dismissed.
“The court does not minimize the seriousness
of AIDS, AIDS-related Complex and HIV infec
tion,” Sanders said in his 29-page opinion. “It
may be that this community should devote more
resources to this menacing and so far irremedia
ble problem; that is a question of important pub
lic policy, which it is not for this court to deter
mine.”
The judge also rejected a move by the alliance
to institute a class action in the suit. The Ameri
can Civil Liberties Union had joined the gay alli
ance in the discrimination suit, saying it could set
a precedent for hospitals around the country.
“We’re obviously disappointed, but I also think
we’ve declared a victory of sort. When started,
there was a waiting list for AZT. Now a year later,
under threat of judicial action, there’s over 300
people receiving the drug,” said William Way-
bourn, president of the Dallas Gay Alliance.
“After our lawsuit was filed, the plaintiffs were
treated with kid gloves, they were given the best
care available,” Waybourn said, adding that two
of the five .plaintiffs have died since the suit was
filed last May.
“We believe that opinion vindicates Parkland
regarding all of the allegations which were
brought by the Dallas Gay Alliance,” Parkland
administrator Ron Anderson said.
The alliance claimed that AIDS patients were
discriminated against and received inadequate
health care at Parkland’s AIDS clinic. The suit al-
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inadequately stalled and drugs were not learijml
available.
“Although plaintiffs disagree with the i
fendants as to adequacy of staffing and non-rot
tion of medical students at the AIDS clinic,pi
tiffs have not demonstrated an actual
threatened injury caused by the alleged staffi
deficiencies,” Sanders wrote.
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He said plaintiffs and all other eligible patic
e’re obviously disappointed,
but I also think we’ve declared a
victory of sort. When started, there
was a waiting list for AZT. Now a
year later, under threat of judicial
action, there’s over 300 people
receiving the drug.”
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— William Waybourn,
president of the Dallas Gay
Alliance
legecl the hospital failed to provide “readily avail
able” medical treatments that included the drugs
AZT and Pentamidine.
The judge dismissed claims that the clinic was
now have access to appointments, AZT and Pc
tamidine at Parkland AIDS clinic. One
testif ied he could get an appointment at tiiec j’
within an hour. ■*
Waybourn said the alliance would watch[:M cn
hospital, which is required by law to providekj" ^
gent health care in Dallas County, and filerlL^
other lawsuit if its care of A1 DS patients slippdSf ■ .
The day after the suit was filed, state DisitM^
Judge John M. Marshall signed a temporal]M ‘ c
straining order instructing Parkland to eliinkiE° m
the waiting list and begin offering experimerw ^ s
treatment to indigent AIDS patients who need;®
Less than a week later, Dr. Daniel Barbarc L (
signed as chief of Parkland’s AIDS c l' n ' c
leaders viewed Barbaro as a scapegoat fortB
hospital’s difficulties. ^|lj, BEg (
Anderson had blamed Barbaro in April l 1 ;®^)
lor the clinic’s difficulties, saying he created:
rale problems among the staff and failed to
the most of available resources. ■ c
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Senator says
rural hospitals
face slow death allow Border Patrol cutbacks
Drop in immigrant numbers
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The
health-care system in rural America
will crumble if quick changes aren’t
made to reverse a Medicare re-
imbursement’system that has caused
the “slow starvation” of rural hospi
tals, Sen. Tom Harkin told a Senate
panel Thursday.
Members of the Senate Finance
Committee agreed Medicare’s sys
tem for reimbursing urban hospitals
at a higher rate than their rural
counterparts is unfair and largely re
sponsible for putting rural hospitals
on frail financial footing.
Health and Human Services Sec
retary Louis W. Sullivan, meanwhile,
has recommended rural and large
urban hospitals receive greater
Medicare payment increases next
fiscal year than urban hospitals.
Minority Leader Bob Dole and Fi
nance Committee Chairman Lloyd
Bentsen, D-Texas, have introduced
legislation that calls for phasing in a
uniform Medicare reimbursement
rate beginning 1991.
“If we don’t act quickly to change
Medicare’s Prospective Payment Sys
tem, the health care system in rural
America will crumble,” Harkin said.
“If that happens, we will be forced
not very long from now to take dx as-
tic measures — with a drastic price
tag—- to rebuild it.”
McALLEN (AP) — A sharp drop
in the number of Central Americans
trying to enter the United States
prompted the Border Patrol to scale
back extra forces detailed to the
South Texas border, an official said
Thursday.
Immigration officials say the drop
in apprehensions means get-tough
policies are discouraging Central
Americans from coming here to file
frivolous applications for political
asylum.
From January to March, the Bor
der Patrol’s McAllen Sector added
192 extra agents to stem a flood of
“other-than-Mexican,” or so-called
OTM, aliens — mostly Central
Americans — entering the country
illegally. The bulk of the extra
agents brought in from other parts
of the country patrolled in the
Brownsville area, the closest border
.crossing point to Nicaragua, El Sal
vador, Honduras and Guatemala.
The agency began detaining
nearly all of those apprehended,
rather than releasing most on their
own recognizance, as it had been
doing.
nently stationed in the McAllen Sec
tor.
Central American apprehensions
in South Texas have fallen from
200-250 a day in early March to a
current level of 50-60 a day, Vickery
said.
He said the word of a crackdown
has reached Central America.
detained, then your case is heardi™
mediately. It’s not like it was befal
when they were released andtral
eled north never to be heard frocl
again.”
“There’s no free pass,” Vickery
said. “If you’re caught here you are
INS officials also say the numkl
of people turning themselves inhP
untarily to apply for political asyl™
has plummeted from 500 a dar:f !
January to a current level of fwB
than 10 daily in South Texas.
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U.S. shelters overflow |
with child immigrants
Under the prospective payment
system, hospitals are reimbursed for
the average costs of their elderly
Medicare patients and not on actual
costs. Enacted by Congress in 1983,
the system has meant rural hospitals
are reimbursed by as much as 40
percent less than urban hospitals,
according to testimony.
Its crackdown accompanied an
Immigration and Naturalization
Service policy that began Feb. 21, in
which asylum applicants are proc
essed in one day and immediately
detained if their initial claims to ref
ugee status are denied.
The number of extra Border Pa
trol agents in South Texas has been
cut to 102, and may be reduced fur
ther if apprehensions continue to
drop, said E.J. Vickery, assistant
chief of the Border Patrol’s McAllen
Sector. There are 395 agents perma-
LOS F RES NOS, Texas (AP) —
Childhood ends somewhere between
Central America and the Rio
Grande for young immigrants who
slip into the United States without
their parents.
Border Patrol agents in South
Texas say they’ve found children as
young as 4 traveling without adults,
some abandoned by the alien smug
glers known as “coyotes” to fend for
themselves on the crime-infested riv-
erbank that marks the Mexican bor
der.
By the time they find a temporary
refuge at government-sponsored
shelters in South Texas, many of the
children carry with them stories of
rape, robbery, physical abuse, intim
idation and extortion at the hands of
alien smugglers or corrupt officials
of the countries along their route.
“They become men and women
by the time they get here,” said Ale
jandro Flores, director of the
national Emergency Shelter for in
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migrant children in Raymondviljf
about 45 miles north of the bordei
The exodus of thousands ofC»I
tral Americans seeking political!'’jj
lum in the United States hascau»|
a crisis in southern Texas, where() I
immigrants have filled to overdo* E
ing a detention camp and RedCrost
shelters and overwhelmed medfel
and legal aid systems. |
Since July, when the First sped) I
shelter for child immigrants opend |
in Los Fresnos, more than 600 ci |
dren have been housed there and ; ,
Raymondville. In addition, Rt ;
Cross shelters for immigrant I
lies house 60-80 unaccompanisi
children on a given week, and i
U.S. Justice Department is pjannini
a third special shelter for child in
grants in a former seminary i
Mission.
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