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...they had been spraying insecticide in the fields - and embrace her. But their talk reveals the disturbing reason for her total abandonment. The village has emptied in favor of the lure of the big city. So, for O, a little girl can signify the cost of a vast cultural shift...
...start-up problems. Top officials at the Health and Human Service Department and its Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are scrambling to fix computer snafus that have resulted in many of the some 6.4 million low-income seniors being turned away or overcharged as they are forced to shift from Medicaid drug coverage to the confounding new prescription drug program. And no one hopes more that they'll be fixed than George Bush and Congressional Republicans, who two years ago rammed through the bill setting up the new Medicare Part D program that began Jan. 1. GOP lawmakers insist...
...elections looming, Democrats won't go down without some fighting words. Instead of the largely ineffectual approach they took in Alito's Judiciary Committee hearings-where they leveled oblique accusations of bigotry and questionable legal ethics-Dems are expected to focus more intently on the fact that Alito will shift the court to the right. After Chief Justice John Roberts joined Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas in a minority dissent in last week's decision upholding Oregon's right to enact a law legalizing doctor assisted suicide, court watchers now believe Roberts will be every bit as conservative...
...that was passed in 2003 is not really an expansion of Medicare, which is an entitlement with standardized care. Part D, although funded by Medicare, is actually private insurance, similar in design to high-deductible health policies that shift more of the costs to members in an effort to make them more conscious of what they're spending. "People are used to it being an entitlement, but [Part D] wasn't the same sort of generous benefit that Medicare is," says David Scrase, president of Presbyterian Health Plan, a Part D provider in Albuquerque...
...would then propose a stronger Security Council order based on the U.N.'s authority to combat threats to international peace. Step three would call for targeted sanctions, such as a freeze on government bank accounts a possibility for which Tehran apparently began planning last week when it started to shift its foreign-currency reserves from E.U. banks...