Word: reforms
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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RALPH NADER Even an auto-safety scandal can't lift polls. Hey, at least you're not the Reform Party...
...most challenging reform may be to get patients to become their own advocates for better death. That would require frank talk about a somber subject. That's not an entirely unreasonable expectation, reformers contend. They point out that Americans successfully changed birth in the 1960s and '70s by getting fathers more involved and focusing more on mothers' well-being. Byock believes that the boomers, who demanded many of the changes in the way we come into the world, will be equally insistent on changing the way we leave. "The baby boomers are the most self-centered, arrogant, willing...
...propitious moment for reform. Those who bore the baby boomers are nearing their end. Like everything else they have come across and disliked, boomers are taking note of the ways in which their parents are dying--and trying to do something about it. The growing movement to improve the way we die is the subject of the special report that follows and a separate documentary, created by Bill and Judith Moyers, airing this week on PBS. (See story on page 74.) These are the stories of people who have managed to die more comfortably, who have demanded better care from...
Bush's plan would fundamentally reform Medicare by putting the focus on helping seniors buy private insurance--but not everyone would be guaranteed equal coverage...
...WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO? To Medicare reform $110 BILLION To states for immediate Rx drug coverage $48 BILLION To hospitals for restoring recent Medicare cuts $40 BILLION TOTAL: $198 BILLION...