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...from insurance rolls. The year after Texas enacted its patients'-rights law, the cost of premiums decreased while the number of people with insurance increased more than 200,000, according to Kennedy. "The actual number of uninsured has gone down," he argues. His bill would shield employers from suits except when they are directly involved in medical decisions. Even Bush has said he doesn't want to let employers completely off the hook. Can they find middle ground...
...three or four doctors who do their exercises from 5:30 to 7:30 a.m. near the library of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. All they hear are birds chirping. Steven Reani does his exercises in the early morning near a deserted shopping mall--except on the weekends when he does them on the vast green lawn in front of the Capitol, where dozens of Falun Gong practitioners assemble...
...course, this isn’t the first time Congress has approached a complex question armed only with sound bytes. But Congress is a political beast, good at balancing interests and not much else, and there are no lobbyists here—except for a few biotech companies and the Catholic Church. One might think that this freedom from lobbying would spur healthy debate, improving the chances that Congress would reach the right decision for the right reasons. But without a firmer grasp of the ethical arguments than the five-minute presentations they receive—and without the courage...
...present this afternoon have wagered a great deal together in these past ten years at Harvard. For my own part, I would not hesitate a moment to make the very same wager again—except for the convenient fact that there can be no repeat performances in life,” he said...
...blissfully unattached single devoid of responsibility for anything (except my rent) and anyone (save my bevy of blissfully unattached friends), I've always found nothing more frightening than the prospect of having kids of my own to feed and shelter. Recently, though, I've been dwelling on something far scarier: educating them - myself. With an estimated two million kids from all economic classes now schooled at home, this isn't just idle worrying on my part. And considering I will surely never make enough money to pay for private schools - and fancy myself always living in hip urban centers with...