Word: programed
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...piece of this grand picture missing? If there was something for everyone, why was there nothing for him? He would be better off back in Odessa, back in Ukraine. "I knew what it took to be a world-class swimmer, because I'd been in a program to develop world-class swimmers," he says now, 24 years old, the world-record holder in both the 100- and 200-meter backstrokes. "I knew I wasn't getting that here. No matter what I did on my own, I knew I didn't have a chance...
...prescription-drug coverage, one of this year's hottest political issues, which Bush would address initially by giving grants to states to help buy drugs for needy elderly. Ultimately, however, the drug coverage he envisions would be part of a much broader overhaul of Medicare that would change the program's very nature and put private insurance companies in competition with the government to provide coverage to the nation's 33 million elderly. By comparison, Vice President Al Gore's far more expensive proposal would tinker around the edges of the current system, giving uninsured people as young...
...retirement, the government's cost of providing for their health care will skyrocket, to the point where the entire system is projected to run out of money by 2025. Gore has proposed shoring it up with bags of cash--he would add five years to the life of the program by shifting $435 billion from the general budget. The money would pay off part of the national debt, and the future savings on interest payments would go to Medicare. But that is a temporary fix, which is why some politicians are daring to say out loud that privatizing much...
...radioactive in politics. Former candidate Bill Bradley learned that lesson when Gore used the word to paint Bradley's health-care plan as a paltry handout. There is a long history of such scorching moments in fights over health-care reform, particularly when they involve Medicare, a program that is literally a life-and-death matter to the nation's most engaged voting bloc, the elderly. Gingrich found out the hard way as he tried to restructure the program in 1995 to squeeze hundreds of billions of dollars...
...Americans have not decided which kind of bureaucrat they dislike more: the ones who work for the Federal Government or those who work for insurance companies. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, roughly equal numbers put more trust in HMOs (41%) vs. the Medicare program (39%) to provide better health care, while 20% were not sure. But early tests of how well private insurance companies treat seniors have not been promising. Health-maintenance organizations rushed in when the government gave them a larger opening in the Medicare market three years ago. This summer scores of HMOs announced that they...