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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...
...Washington politicians who are struggling with the issue, health care often seems to be about arcane terms like mandate, cherry picking, adverse selection. For associate editor Janice Castro, health care is about babies being born, illnesses being treated and the security of being expertly cared for by your doctors and nurses. But Castro, who has covered health policy for TIME since 1984, knows that in order for Americans to take an intelligent part in the national debate over reforming the health-care system, they must understand those arcane words...
...ability to reconcile the human and practical aspects of health care with the technical details is what distinguishes Castro's story this week on doctors and managed-care networks. "Everyone in health care talks in an indecipherable language," she says. "What, for example, is a 'preferred provider'? You might think it's a very good doctor, but it isn't. It's the one insurers will pay for, the one you have...
Meanwhile, the regimes of Kim, Fidel Castro and Deng Xiaoping lived on in relative silence. Kim's death might have been expected to throw his nation into furor. The problem with that theory is simply that he and his government had been planning for the event for years. The ascension of Kim II Sung's son, 52-year-old Kim Jong Il, has been a foregone conclusion for years...
Outside of China and North Korea, only Fidel Castro, another octogenarian dictator, still reigns with the ultimate power of a charismatic tyrant. With the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba's isolation became complete. Castro has not been grooming a successor as obviously as Kim did, nor does he have as huge a party bureaucracy to pick up the pieces when he dies...