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...covering basic preventive treatment for all Americans who cannot pay for their own insurance. Nearly two-thirds of the 500 senior executives surveyed last summer by the consulting firm Noble Lowndes said they support such a plan. To help pay for it, Congress should eliminate the $53,400 income cap on the payroll tax that funds Social Security. While this would sharply increase payroll taxes for the wealthiest, such a change represents a more equitable way of apportioning the burden, which now falls more heavily on lower-income workers. Removing the cap would provide an estimated $25 billion...
SOLUTION: For malpractice cases, cap noneconomic awards for factors like pain and suffering at about $250,000. California placed a limit on such awards in 1975, and it now has some of the lowest malpractice premiums in the U.S. One reason: ambulance-chasing lawyers have less incentive to bring questionable claims...
...prevent others from suffering his fate, the fate of thousands of less publicized Americans. Last Friday night, Magic launched his safe sex crusade, imploring viewers of the Arsenio Hall Show to use condoms: "I came to let the people know what time it is. Please put your thinking caps on and put your cap on down here...
...offered houses over their cap the alternative of swing space in Apley Court and Peabody Terrace," Dingman intoned. "We gave them a choice and not all accepted...
...team is currently investigating whether those that entered the nursing homes did so to maintain medication coverage or because they actually became sicker under the cap system...