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...their regular care through their personal HSA. Therefore, patients will be less likely to overuse the system and will go to the doctor only when their need approaches the cost of the service. Moreover, HSAs are tied to individuals, not corporations. Consequently, shifting jobs won’t affect an individual’s health insurance, which will allow for more consistency over job transitions and the employment status.Yet, as with most plans, the HSA is not perfect. As Democrats have rightly pointed out, this plan fails to address a major flaw in the current system: the millions of uninsured...
...University President Larry Summers’ comments about women in science. To Gift proponents, these stances seem petty and shallow. Seniors (and alums) should not give to Harvard blindly. But neither should they let the bad overshadow the good. Whether Harvard has a student center or not does not affect the fundamentally positive things that Harvard accomplishes. Enforcing narrow administrative or academic accountability by rejecting the Senior Gift makes as much sense as refusing to pay for your parents’ retirement home because they wouldn’t let you see R-rated movies when you were in high...
...access,” said Kalis, who added that the group had not received a reply to its letter from the University as of last night. The president of the Law School Council, Zachary W. Prager, said that the next Harvard leader will have to confront issues that specifically affect graduate students—such as the coordination of cross-registration among graduate schools. “I think having representation at the search committee level is essential to ensuring that those concerns really rise to the level of importance that they deserve,” he said. The University...
...Libby S. Adler, a law professor at Northeastern, discussed how “immutability” of sexual orientation could affect the legal system. If it were shown that people are born gay, just as people are born into a race, it would be easier to win suits alleging discrimination based on sexual preference, Adler explained...
...Frist has not said whether he will bring it back to the floor for a vote, but two things could affect that decision. Serious pressure from the White House to get a deal - pressure that so far, despite the President's occasional public statements, has been virtually non-existent - could move Republicans forward. Or a backlash against the massive protests planned by pro-immigration groups in coming days could make them dig in their heels. The Senate's dealmakers -John McCain, Ted Kennedy, Chuck Hagel, Mel Martinez, Barack Obama and others - say they will continue their weekly meetings in search...