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...forms to fill out, to cite one. To the uninsured, the reforms provide a chance to buy policies now unavailable. Many states, for example, are sharply restricting the ability of insurance companies to turn down applicants because of a "pre-existing condition" (insurance jargon meaning they already have an ailment that is expensive to treat, perhaps kidney disease or multiple sclerosis). And for everybody -- patients, taxpayers, state officials, business executives -- the reforms promise, eventually at least, a slowdown in the relentless rise of medical costs that keeps kiting up insurance premiums and patients' bills and biting into state budgets...
...Mexico and into Arizona and Utah. Of the 11 who have died, nine are Indians. The outbreak came to light last month, when a young Navajo man fell ill on his way to the funeral of his 24-year-old girlfriend, who had died from a curious flulike ailment. Five days later, the man himself was dead; the couple's infant son was also stricken but survives...
...always sick. "The doctor more or less said that she was just born with a screwed-up immune system," says Joanne. She had a bodywide eczema starting in infancy, rheumatic fever and meningitis in childhood, a progressive eye ailment in her later years...
...year-old forward collapsed during a % postseason game at Boston Garden. Lewis, who is the Celtics' leading scorer, bravely returned to the game before weakening and finally heading for the bench for good. A few days later, a team physician delivered a disturbing diagnosis: Lewis had "focal cardiomyopathy," an ailment that damages an area of the heart and causes it to beat irregularly. Hank Gathers of Loyola Marymount University, another celebrated young basketball player, died from cardiomyopathy in 1990. Lewis said he would seek a second opinion. And Celtics fans, stunned by the loss, looked around desperately for another hoops...
...senior, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said she had been treated by three different male doctors for a mysterious stomach ailment she caught overseas. One of the doctors, she says, questioned her toughness...