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...Broken arm, painful shoulder, hand, hip or knee? The orthopedic clinic at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center is a great value. Two orthopedic surgeons, often four or five, will talk to you, examine you (and your x-rays) and then discuss your case in a sophisticated conference and decide on the best course of treatment - all for $45 ($175 if you live outside of the "neighborhood" - what used to be called Spanish Harlem.) I learned a good deal of what I know about treating patients there as a resident, and I've taught there ever since. A few have been there...
...work the clinic for free and operated on clinic patients gratis. The hospital did, however, accept Medicaid payments. Rosa was now employed - no longer Medicaid eligible - and she had paid $45 for the clinic visit that day. And because she wasn't in any health plan that could strong arm down the hospital bill - they got about $800 for the half-hour use of the 'local room' from HMOs - she was vulnerable to the full-ticket "private fee". Rosa could barely afford the $45 for clinic. She was going to have to live with the pain...
...thoughts on the world economy are worth listening to. The group comprises 93 companies, including the world's second largest tea business (Tata Tea); Asia's largest software firm (Tata Consultancy Services); a steel giant (Tata Steel); a worldwide hotel chain (Indian Hotels); and a sprawling vehicle-manufacturing arm (Tata Motors) that includes a bicycle factory in Zambia and a project to make a car selling for $2,200. Since Ratan Tata became chairman in 1991, he has multiplied Tata group revenues seven times to an annual $21.7 billion. Since 2000, the group's market value has jumped 14 times...
...after independence in 1947, the group came to symbolize all that was bad about Indian business. It lost its airline and insurance arm to nationalization. To avoid giving up more to the Congress Party socialists who ruled India for half a century, J.R.D. Tata, a distant cousin of Ratan Tata, emphasized individual companies over the group, keeping the conglomerate's stakes small and demanding little coordination. Meanwhile, shielded from competition by the restrictive bureaucracy of the "license Raj," Tata's companies became bloated and calcified. "We weren't driving ourselves hard enough in a protected environment," says Ratan Tata...
...when we think of college activism, we tend to imagine Kent State and braless young women. But today the left can claim no youth organizations as powerful as YAF, ISI or the Leadership Institute. One of the biggest young-liberal groups, the Sierra Student Coalition (an arm of the Sierra Club), has a budget of just $350,000 for 150 college chapters. There were once as many as 200 left-leaning Public Interest Research Groups at U.S. universities, but today only about half that number exist. Last school year, the 38-year-old National Organization for Women spent twice...