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...spokesman for the president of the state senate, says, "The hope is that it will dovetail very nicely with health reform nationally." Rhode Island, which has some of the most stringent insurance-market regulations in the country, already has guaranteed issue in the small group market (requiring insurers to accept all applicants) and strict limits on how insurance companies can set premium rates based on health status. "Changing the underwriting laws will be relatively easy for us," says Chris Koller, Rhode Island's insurance commissioner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health-Care Reform: Will States Get Too Much Power? | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

...accept environmentalists’ position. How would their policies affect our standard of living? The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, which the House of Representatives passed in June, requires Americans to lower their carbon dioxide emissions by 83 percent below 2005 levels in 40 years. “That means when you are 61, you will be allowed the average per capita emissions of an American in 1867,” Michaels said. He added that if every country under the Kyoto treaty adopted similar measures, we would prevent just seven percent of the warming that...

Author: By Brian J. Bolduc | Title: Drop the Napkins, Punk! | 10/6/2009 | See Source »

...council. "Afghans are not like what you hear from other countries, that they are religious and strict," she says. "You can see that by voting for me, they are open-minded and want change. I am a singer, but they supported me anyway." (Read about why the U.S. will accept Hamid Karzai, for better or for worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Afghan Idol's Political Star Turn | 10/6/2009 | See Source »

Finding something that liberal voters can accept and moderates will tolerate is a challenge Kratovil shares with nearly 50 other freshmen and sophomores in districts won by George W. Bush and McCain in the past two elections. President Obama's party could lose 40 seats next November, according to political expert Charlie Cook, if Democrats fail to pass health-care reform and polls continue their downward spiral. "The kinds of conditions that create wave elections are the kinds of conditions we're seeing right now," he says. "Kratovil is in bad shape - as bad as an incumbent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freshmen Dems: Caught in the Middle on Health Care | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...unreliable," said Nona Andaya-Castillo, co-organizer of the synchronized breastfeeding event, in Manila, three days after the nation experienced its worst flooding in nearly 50 years. She and Henares-Esguerra had just spent the previous night with President Macapagal-Arroyo, drafting a press statement advising mothers not to accept formula-milk donations during the crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philippines Kicks Off Global Mass Breastfeeding | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

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