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ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Richard Behar, Janice Castro, Christine Gorman, Sophfronia Scott Gregory, Michael D. Lemonick, Thomas McCarroll, Marguerite Michaels, Anastasia Toufexis, David Van Biema...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Richard Behar, Janice Castro, Christine Gorman, Sophfronia Scott Gregory, Michael D. Lemonick, Thomas McCarroll, Marguerite Michaels, Anastasia Toufexis, David Van Biema...
...longer period of time." The Senator also hinted that the plan would require employers to pay only 50 percent of their workers' insurance--a big cut from Clinton's requirement of 80 percent. "One way or the other this is going to require a large tax increase," says Janice Castro, TIME's health-care writer...
...Castro's passion for explaining health care in clear, illuminating language recently led her to write a book on the subject -- The American Way of Health: How Medicine Is Changing and What It Means to You, published in May in both hardcover and paperback by Little, Brown. She spent six months crisscrossing the country -- from Walnut Creek, California, to Leesburg, Virginia -- interviewing patients, nurses, insurance executives, Senators -- just about anyone with a voice or a stake in the decisions that Washington soon hopes to make. She talked to AIDS patients at San Francisco General and stood at the elbow...
...Castro draws on personal experience in the book as well. Her father's stroke in 1991 confronted her with a bureaucracy that made cost, not wellness, the basis for his hospital release. Not until he realized that his recovery depended on himself and not the white coats he had so believed in all his life did her father improve. He finished reading Janice's book just before he died in May, at 79. "I get calls from doctors who have read that chapter who comment what a brave and determined man my father must have been," she says...