"Koop Calls Prop 102 'Bad Medicine'"

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"Koop Calls Prop 102 'Bad Medicine'"

United Press International (11/03/88)
Leavitt, Carrick

San Francisco--California ballot initiative Proposition 102 has been at the center of controversy between AIDS activists and health officials who feel it will frighten AIDS patients away from being tested and supporters of those who see it as the solution to the quiet spread of the fatal disease. Those opposing the initiative got a major boost Wednesday when U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop came out strongly against Proposition 102. Koop said the measure could set AIDS research back 5 years simply by driving away those who participate in testing. Public health officials in California praised Koop's announcement and say the proposal, which would require doctors and blood banks to report the names of those infected with HIV to health officials, could cost taxpayers as much as $2 billion to implement. California Gov. George Deukmejian announced Tuesday he supports passage of Prop. 102 in direct opposition to advice from his medical advisers, but Kaiser Permanente, a major health care provider in California, called the initiative "ill-advised".
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