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...Many liberals claim that covering the 47 million uninsured with public funds if necessary or by restricting insurance companies' ability to exclude patients and thus opening the door to preventative care will reduce emergency care visits, and possibly health spending overall. But that’s the problem: some conservatives, it seems, are quite content with inefficiencies...
...their moral case for single-payer health care. Such a system, by funneling most health care spending into the public sector, eliminates the private sector, and thus inequity. Millionaires, they beam, have to wait in the same lines for surgery as janitors. It is egalitarian. And therein lies its problem...
...plug the U.S. trade deficit. It would be far smarter to address concerns like China's uncompetitive service sector--allowing foreign banks to set up shop, for example. "China can open up a lot more to the outside world. That's a much more constructive way to solve the problem," he said...
...Queen had the raw constitutional power to do such a thing. It cranked up the long-dormant impulse toward republicanism. Until the 1970s this had been an issue only for intellectuals and a few left-wing workers whose vehemence earned them an undeserved reputation as ratbags (obsessed eccentrics). The problem was democratizing the republican issue while detaching it from the ownership of the Australian left. And it did slowly broaden, though its main political instrument, the Australian Republican Movement (A.R.M.), didn't come into existence until the 1980s...
...ministry has already decided to shut down some of the worst orphanages and place the children under more appropriate care, Ljajic said, but added that the problem is so huge that it would take years to contain it. "After decades of neglect, there are no swift solutions," he said...