Word: cared
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...First, he must challenge the Hookes/Kennedy agenda of affirmative action, racial set-asides and endless litigation by vetoing the Civil Rights Act of 1990. He must then outline a coherent plan to empower the nation's disadvantaged through education vouchers, tenant management of public housing, tougher law enforcement, child care and other initiatives. Initially, no doubt, he will face a storm of protest from entrenched civil rights groups, but in the long run Bush may well be remembered as the Empowerment President...
PATRICIA Jones' vote may have counted as much as that of every other citizen of the District, but her health did not. In a society that distributes life-prolonging care on an ability-to-pay basis, we have, in essence, decided that some people deserve to live more than others...
...real lesson of Patricia Jones is not about D.C. General, or about doctors, or even about hospitals. It is about whether we will continue to allow the free market to mis-allocate health care. It is about whether politicans will allow 38 million Americans to remain uninsured and vulnerable to financial ruin in the event of an accident or illness...
...about whether Americans will demand a health care system as equitable as Austria's or West Germany's, or whether we will remain the only industrial nation save South Africa that doesn't guarantee health care as a right of citizenship. Other countries, such as Canada, provide equivalent care to all their citizens at roughly two-thirds of the cost of care in America...
Solving the health care crisis in this country won't be simple. But we don't lack the ability to develop lasting solutions...