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THE BATTALION
Doctors refuse to treat children in El Pa
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EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Chil
dren newly enrolled in Texas’ health
plans for the poor are being turned
away by a third of the pediatricians
in this West Texas city.
The doctors say they are paid too
little to see the overwhelming num
bers who need their help. Other pedi
atricians are warning they will follow
suit, threatening access to health care
for some of El Paso’s most vulnerable
children, the El Paso Times reported
in Sunday’s editions.
Seven doctors at El Paso Pedi
atric Associates no longer take new
patients enrolled in Medicaid or the
Children’s Health Insurance Pro
gram. Some doctors have left El
Paso in recent months for jobs in
other cities because of the low re
imbursements.
‘Taking care of them is strictly a
break-even proposition,” said Stuart
Kahn, one of the seven doctors. ‘They
utilize services more, and they’re sick
er than our other patients.”
In the past several months, El
Paso pediatricians have seen a dra
matic increase in the number of poor
patients in their practices, driven by
successful community efforts to en
roll children in Medicaid — the
health insurance program for the
poor — and in CHIP, a federally
funded health insurance plan for the
working poor, the doctors say.
But doctors are paid far less to
treat those children than they would
receive under commercial insurance
plans — in many cases, half as much.
For example, El Paso pediatri
cians make about $100 for a well-
baby checkup covered by commer
cial insurance plans. But CHIP pays
doctors $62 for the same service,
and Medicaid pays $50.
“Our rates are cut and cut and
cut, and we have to work more and
more to break even,” saidCentral El
Paso pediatrician Arturo Casillas.
He has closed his practice to new
Napster fails to block copyright music
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) —
Copyright music flowed freely on
the Napster tune-swapping service
Sunday afternoon as users waited to
see if the company would fulfill a
promise to block pirated songs
sometime over the weekend using a
new screening system.
All the top 10 songs listed on the
Billboard Hot 100 list were avail
able on the company’s servers, in
cluding the No. 1 “Stutter” by Joe
featuring Mystikal. Songs by long
time Napster foe Metallica also
showed up in searches.
The company will not comment on
the screening plan until it begins, spokes
woman Karen DeMarco said Sunday.
She would not say when that would be.
With the service facing immi
nent change, usage was soaring.
More than 11,100 people shared a
total of 2.2 million files Sunday af
ternoon on just one of dozens of
servers used by Napster.
“I am kind of watching it and try
ing to get my last efforts in — quick
ly,” said Thor Nelson, a user from
St. Paul, Minn.
During a federal court hearing Fri
day, Napster attorney David Boies said
the service would deploy the screen
ing system over the weekend. He did
not provide a specific time.
On its Website, Napster said the
process of screening out file names,
song titles and artists will not be easy.
“It has involved a significant in-
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telling his current CHIPp
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vestment of time and resources,” a
statement said. “However, we be
lieve it is superior to shutting the ser
vice down and disbanding the com
munity during the transition period to
the new membership-based service.”
The software to be installed on
Napster’s servers will block access
to 1 million music flies, Boies said.
He and Napster officials did not say
whether that number represented
distinct songs or spelling variations
on a smaller list.
Napster’s plan is a pre-emptive
move against an injunction sought
by the major record labels, which
argue copyright holders and artists
are not compensated for music trad
ed on the service.
Trump loses arlicr in the day
battle over naflitotn-h'
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP)-file seventh to
Milligan has pulled a Trump::- The Aggies
The 29-year-old has L g|ie Invitatioi
one-year legal battle toc’.|Sthercaused tl
his name to Sir William Tr. a y and Saturda’
in honor of his idol, NewVc
estate magnate Donald Tn
A county judge grante
name change petition onf
day. Trump Jr. headed &
for the Driver and MotorVe'
Services office to change
driver’s license.
The spa dealer was liet
around town for his tailoreds
and inflated ego— somiK*-nights,
that co-workers and compef tWednesday,
began calling him “TrumpJui he Aggies on S<
Donald Trump tried to stop: On Saturday
name change petition. After‘erry Black pu
gling for three months hows as the Be
Trump’s lawyer, Richard BsMrhe loss dim
Milligan agreed to use the >-13 in Big 12)
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Others use the site just in case
one else needs their help.
Since the site is just beg
there is more time for others®
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is made.
“We will have to wait until
facts are known,” Welsh said.
Welsh said the incident willk:
ferred to Col. Rick Mallahan,ass
tant commandant for discipline.
Welsh defended Carson and
he “is a man of integrity.”
“The people who serve in
ship positions serve becausetheii'i
tential for performance is except
ally high,” Welsh said. “
charges are dismissed.”
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