Word: cared
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...obvious solutions to emergency-room overload are expensive and controversial: give people access to affordable health care, pay nurses decently, allow doctors some flexibility in treating their patients and recognize that good preventive care is a sound investment. Though politicians may resist boosting their budgets for medical care, they might be surprised to learn that many of their constituents are willing to pay the price. According to a Gallup poll released this month, 73% of Californians who believe the government should provide better health care for the poor were willing to pay higher taxes for such expanded coverage; 84% favored...
...fill 9% of the city's beds, will need an additional 2,300 hospital beds -- the equivalent of four new hospitals. The major municipal hospitals are crumbling; private facilities are eating into their endowments in order to pay expenses. "It's a crazy way to run a health-care system," says Dr. Alexander Kuehl, director of New York Hospital's emergency room. "Either give us national health insurance or give us an entrepreneurial system, but don't play games asking private hospitals to spend endowment to take care of patients. The endowment is the future...
Another, perhaps inevitable, answer is to ration health care more scrupulously. Already many hospital administrators are arguing that less money should be spent on highly specialized care -- patients with terminal conditions, babies born with multiple defects who are not expected to live long, elderly patients in need of organ transplants. "We have to let some babies die, some old people die," says Dr. John West, a trauma-care expert at the University of California at Irvine. "We have to look at the quality of life, and we have to look at the return on our health-care buck. You just...
...that eight-year campaign was budgeted from the start. Especially for the circulating libraries, N.Y.P.L. is dependent on money from the city, and New York has been in worse than usual straits since the 1987 stock-market crash. "I think I was chosen because they wanted someone who could care enormously about both the research and branch aspects of the library," says Healy. As a scholar, he acknowledges that he is more attuned to the 88 miles of stacks at the main library, one of the half a dozen foremost research libraries in the world. But, he adds, "the branches...
...emergency room may be the most democratic place in America: people are treated according to need, and no amount of money will buy better care. But the pressures from overcrowding, nonpaying patients, drug violence, AIDS and a nursing shortage are taking a heavy toll on the staff -- and the patients. -- A Hard Day's Night...