Word: programing
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Even among those fortunate enough to be insured, the leading side effect of illness is often financial doom. Consider the elderly, whose federally sponsored insurance program, Medicare, inspires so much drooling and sharpening of knives at budget time. Even with Medicare, older Americans are forced to spend more than 15% of their income for medical care annually. And since nursing-home care is virtually uncovered, the elderly are pushed to degrading extremes -- like divorcing a beloved spouse -- in order to qualify for help through a long-term debilitating illness. Or, as more than one public figure has suggested, they...
...everyone knows that the system is broken beyond repair. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, 3 out of 4 Americans favor a government- financed national health-care program. The AFL-CIO is campaigning vigorously for national health care, and Big Business, terrified by the skyrocketing cost of employee health benefits, seems ready to go along. Even in the medical profession -- the ancient redoubt of free-enterprise traditionalists -- a majority now favor national health insurance...
...kind of arrangement is lemon socialism: the private sector gets the profitable share of the market, and the public sector gets what's left. The problem with this particular lemon is that it tends to sour us on the possibility of real reform. Even those who crave a national program covering everyone are wont to throw up their hands in despair: Nothing works! It's so complex! Maybe in 100 years...
...time to cut the life-support system leading to the hungry maw of the insurance industry. The insurance companies can't have it both ways: they can't refuse to insure the poor, the old and the sick while simultaneously campaigning to prevent a government program to cover everyone alike. The very meaning of insurance is risk sharing -- the well throwing in their lot with the sick, the young with the old, the affluent with the down-and-out. If private enterprise won't do the job, then let private enterprise...
There was more than enough time to catch the telescope's flaw. Rough grinding of the mirror began in 1978, final polishing was not finished until 1981, and the completed telescope sat on the ground for four years after the space shuttle program was disrupted by the Challenger explosion. The mirror's manufacturer, Connecticut-based Perkin-Elmer Corp.,* told NASA that the standards of precision established for the mirror were not only met but exceeded. The only problem was that the mirror had been painstakingly polished into the wrong shape...