Word: cared
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...A.M.A. predictably has pooh-poohed the A.C.P. statement. Says Dr. Raymond Scalettar, an A.M.A. trustee: "It contributes very little to the * debate. The American health-care system needs to be improved, but it works." That reaction may say as much about medical politics as about medical policy. Until recently the A.M.A. dominated the field. Now it is being challenged. Says Ball: "Other medical groups still believe in the politics of the past. That's when medicine could demand its way. The politics of the present and the future is when medicine and other elements of society sit down equally...
...A.C.P. is hoping to build a coalition of industry leaders, politicians, health-care-provider organizations and consumer groups that might build a consensus for dramatic change. The group is already working with AT&T and the United Auto Workers, and in recent weeks it has presented its proposals to the American Association of Retired Persons...
MEDICINE: A prescription for U.S. health care...
...blood is bad blood. Many, perhaps most, members of Congress are qualified and competent -- individually. But together, as an institution, they are paralyzed. Expeditious action on Capitol Hill is reserved for nonsensical commemorative resolutions like "National Prom Graduation Kickoff Day." Important issues -- the deficit, education reform, health care -- are either ducked or shunted to powerless commissions for study. Contrivances like automatic spending cuts substitute for judgment...
...imperative to do so, but without the support at home that makes it feasible. The professional classes paper over the shortfall by hiring a small army of parental surrogates, by accepting a reduced idea of the emotional needs of family life, and by lobbying for flextime and expanded day care. But no act of Congress will ever allow a parent to be in two places at once...