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Media leaders discuss future technology
By Andrea Taormina
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The only agreement among
panelists at a discussion on Sat
urday about what media will be
like in 12 years seemed to be that
the newspaper will still be
around but not.in the form that
is now common.
Dr. Charles Self, head of the
Department of Journalism and
moderator of the discussion, set
the scene for the discussion of
media in the 21st Century by
talking about the current strug
gles in the media.
Self said all the struggles
grow out of one paradox: con
vergence and fragmentation of
the media.
Gerald Garcia, editor of the
Houston Post, said he thought
the newspaper of the future will
be very specialized and targeted
to specific markets that share the
same interests.
Garcia said he visualizes a pa
per that is only one section long,
about 20 to 24 pages, is on com
puter, and has everything in it
that comes in the newspaper now.
Glenn Dromgoole, editor of
the Abilene Reporter-News, did
not see the paper of 12 years in
the future as radically different
than it is now. It will still be the
leading source of local and state
news, Dromgoole said, and it
will still emphasize good writ
ing, good leads and information.
"Reporting stays the same
however we deliver it/' Drom
goole said. "We still have to
gather the information before we
disseminate it."
John Hotard, director of cor
porate communications for
American Airlines, said a prob
lem he believes exists right now
is size.
People develop a great deal of
data, Hotard said, but there is a
difference between data and use
ful information. He said he
thinks someone will still have to
sift through information for peo
ple.
The main concerns raised by
people in the audience and the
f >anelists were focused on people
osing the desire to read, and
where the money will come from
to pay for the new technology.
Becky Swanson, president of
Benchmark Communications,
said she thinks the cost will shift
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John Hotard (second from left), director of corporate communica
tions for American Airlines, answers a question Saturday during a
panel discussion on the media in the 90s held in the MSC.
to consumers.
Swanson said the future in
media is the development of
more technology .
She talked about how much
computers already impact peo
ple's lives.
She said because people are
now starting preschoolers on
computers, there would be a
new generation of people that
are comfortable with getting
their media electronically.
The generation used to read
ing papers is dying out, Swan
son said.
Health Care
Continued from Page 1
"Medical individuals love fan
cy technology, and buyers don't
care what it costs," Saving said.
"The more buyers that you have
who don't care about the costs,
the higher the prices that the hos
pitals can get away with."
He predicted that in a system
where everybody cared about the
costs, hospitals would advertise
lower prices.
"Until you change that, you
cannot affect the cost of medical
care," he said. "You can't have
competition when neither side
cares what it costs. You have to
make the buyers care."
Gay agreed it is very expensive
to develop new medical technolo
gy. In a community the size of
Bryan-College Station where med
ical care is competitive, when one
hospital gets new technology,
then others begin competing and
you see an escalation in technolo
gy, he said.
"As a consumer, we are not
discerning about whose technolo
gy we use," he said. "If a physi
cian says you need it, you will get
it no matter the costs. It is not like
shopping for cars."
To solve some of these eco
nomic problems, Clinton's nation
al plan introduces a theory known
as managed competition. Man
aged competition is basically an
attempt to promote price competi
tion in the national health care
market.
The health care market, like
other markets, is made up of buy
ers and sellers, but unlike most
markets, the buyers and sellers ig
nore the cost of health care.
Experts agree an attempt to
structure the medical market so
doctors and hospitals compete for
patients should lower health care
costs.
Duke Hobbs, director for the
Center for Executive Develop
ment, said managed competition
stifles competition.
He called the term an oxy
moron because if competition is
managed, then it is not true com
petition.
Saving said a system using
IRAs would work best.
The way this would work is
that a certain amount of money is
put into an account for every per
son in the country.
They spend that money
throughout the year on their
health care and receive, tax-free,
the money that is left over at the
end of the year.
"Suddenly, people will care
what it costs for their health care,"
he said.
"That's the only thing that will
work to control costs; that's real
competition."
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Health care plan will hurt
small businesses, experts sa
probl
Tht
By Stephanie Pattillo
The Baitauon
Universal health care coverage
for all Americans, the central goal
of President Clinton's health care
plan, will be costly to small busi
nesses, say local and University
experts.
In small business, according to
the president's health care plan,
the owners would pay 80 percent
of employees' insurance premi
ums while the the worker would
pay 20 percent.
But for companies with fewer
than 50
plovers will have to pay for mud
of their employees' healthcai(
they won't be losers in the Ion
run.
Small employers who are
providing benefits will have!
now, and that will simply beth
cost of doing business, he said.
According to analysts,
president's plan will affectth
economy as a result of it'simpac
on small businesses.
Hobbs said that because smi
businesses employ the majorih
workers in America, employe
mandates will be devastating
the economy.
workers,
govern
ment
subsidies
would
keep
health
care
costs at
3.5 per
cent of
payroll
'Tf a company can't afford to pay
wages for more than a handful
of people, they can't afford to
pay for health care."
-Duke Hobbs, director of the Center
for Executive Development
for all workers making less than
$24,000.
Thomas R. Saving, director of
the Private Enterprise Research
Center, said if this plan goes
through Congress, there will be a
dramatic change to the cost of
small business.
He said there will be a change
in the demand of labor that will
cause wages to fall.
Benefits that were available
before will disappear, he said.
Duke Hobbs, director for the
Center for Executive Develop
ment, said if the health care plan
goes through Congress, then
mandating companies with few
er than 50 employees to pay 80
percent of their workers insur
ance will force these small busi
nesses to go bankrupt.
"If a company can't afford to
pay wages for more than a hand
ful of people, they can't afford to
pay for health care," he said.
But Ron Gay, regional director
of the southwest health plan at
Scott & White, said although em-
"Th
econoit;
will
on a re;
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said.
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said
cost
will
lowering health care
passed on to consumers.
"While we have seen the price
of a VCR stay constant, the
of medical care has gone up,"k
said. "What we will nowseeisj
trade-off. Medical costs will go
down while we see the priced
say a VCR go up."
Saving said employer man
dates will affect the way business
es hire people.
Firms without insurancewil
pay more and therefore attract
young, healthy people, he said
"You will get what is calledai-
verse selection; that is, firms that
offer insurance will get sick peo
ple because the young, health
people will go to the firms tha:
pay more," he said.
Gay said more than just tk
healthy will profit from the healtl
care proposal.
He said society will benefitii
employees have benefits and
good health care.
"I think that for the grassroots
employee, they will be a winner,'
he said.
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