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...small population of Americans, with the benefit of health and freedom for all, regularly produces undreamed of cultural and technical advance. Importantly, the infrastructure in America allows excellence to flourish. Brilliant young scientists are quickly identified by competitions and universities, ambitious young entrepreneurs are given capital and contacts by eager venture capitalists, charismatic young politicians are awarded power by voters, and basketball virtuosi are drafted to the NBA before the age of 20. But the less gifted are also well tended to in America. Investment in the mass of men—best achieved through investment in public infrastructure?...
...Traveling in India and China, I cannot help but feel that some life is cheap there. The agrarian poor do not benefit from investment, and the backward castes are left behind. It is nauseating to think how much genius lies fallow between the Indus and Yellow Rivers. It is even more revolting to consider how many simply charitable and industrious citizens and workers are outside the system...
...people have called in asking for help. Every story is different, but the contours of the problem tend to be depressingly similar: the 10-year-old leukemia patient in Ohio who, after three rounds of chemotherapy and a bone-marrow transplant, had almost exhausted the maximum $1.5 million lifetime benefit allowed under her father's employer-provided plan; the Connecticut grocery-store worker who put off the radiation treatments for her Stage 2 breast cancer because she had used up her company plan's $20,000 annual maximum and was $18,000 in debt; the New Hampshire accountant who, unable...
...call the Cancer Society as her family's crisis worsened. In March 2007, her daughter Taylor, now 10, received a diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia, a fast-growing cancer that not only took a toll on Taylor's body but also quickly consumed the $1 million lifetime health-care benefit the girl had under her father's employer-based coverage. After three chemotherapy treatments, her cancer went into remission, but she suffered multiple side effects, including heart and hip complications, that may dog her for years to come. After state and insurance-company bureaucracies were less than helpful...
...slip earmarks into legislation without taking responsibility - non-earmarked earmarks, in a way - but Obama helped spearhead an effort to eliminate that practice after Democrats took back Congress. It is also true that earmarks can be a sneaky way for boondoggles to bypass hearings, public comment periods, cost-benefit analyses and other forms of scrutiny. But the Constitution does give Congress the power of the purse, and earmarks can sometimes be the only way for congressmen to force recalcitrant bureaucracies to take on worthy projects. For example, most federal transportation aid goes directly to state agencies with monomaniacal attachments...