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...earlier disavowed. Finally, the Administration accepts the idea of rationing health services. It approved an Oregon plan to extend Medicaid to those not now getting it, recouping the cost by no longer reimbursing treatment for conditions that clear up by themselves (e.g., the common cold) or that afflict only a few people and involve heavy expense for a doubtful outcome -- for example, some liver transplants...
...life. He could talk as easily about his encounters with Duke Ellington (whom he liked and admired) as he could about his testy confrontations with General Douglas MacArthur (whom he disliked and considered a racist). To a remarkable extent, he inoculated himself against the tiresome affectations that often afflict famous, high- achieving people. He didn't stand on formality (clerks simply called him "Judge"; he often called us "Knucklehead" and shared his macadamia nuts when our work pleased him). He spoke cordially to everyone, high and low, though his unpretentiousness sometimes tempted people to underestimate him. Every time...
Many old-style newspaper reporters wore Pulitzer's code as a badge of honor, or used it to justify their low salaries. Many news writers considered it their duty to "comfort the afflicted" and "afflict the comfortable...
Would Paul Masson approve of the progress of the health-care debate? Probably not. Democrats sold Clinton to the public partly on the strength of a long-overdue national health plan, but they never addressed these major problems that will afflict either of the two major proposals...
Spinal-cord injuries, which afflict 10,000 Americans each year, were until recently considered untreatable. But researchers have begun to unlock the secrets of nerve growth and regeneration, and are even talking, in very cautious tones, about the possibility of reversing paralysis. "There are potent new tools that could change the extreme statements often made by physicians, such as 'You'll never walk again,' " says Dr. Richard Bunge, scientific director of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. "That may all change -- maybe not within this decade, but certainly within the next...