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Added to the chorus of voices expressing concern over the Clinton administration's health-care reform is a coalition of 67 national research, health, and senior citizen organizations calling itself the Task Force for Aging Research. In a statement released over Labor Day weekend through the Washington, D.C.-based National Alliance for Aging Research, which organized the group, the task force called upon the administration to allocate $1 billion in next year's budget for age-related health and medical research as a way to save billions in health care for older Americans. "Research to find new and better ways to prevent diseases must be the cornerstone of any health reform package and any cost-containment effort," the organization said in its statement. The coalition noted that the proposed 1994 federal budget cuts "would reduce or stop important research in aging, including Alzheimer's disease, cardiovascular diseases and stroke, osteoporosis, arthritis, hearing loss, vision loss, ...
