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...ever rising numbers of uninsured Americans, now estimated at 47 million, but corporate America's impatience with the back-breaking financial burden of providing health insurance for its employees. Health care adds $1,500 to the price of every new American car, for instance. "I've had auto executives say to me, ?We're health-care companies that happen to make cars,'" says Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon. As it happens, Wyden has put an elegant and entirely radical health-care plan on the table. According to an independent assessment by the Lewin Group, a nonpartisan health-care consulting firm...
...statistically documented that police stop black and Latino drivers more often than white ones, that blacks receive longer sentences than whites for the same crimes, that black applicants for home and auto loans receive higher interest rates than whites with the same financial credentials, that white basketball referees are more likely to call a foul on a black player than a white player, and that their bias exceeds that of black referees...
Gilligan was one of two survivors of a head-on auto collision during winter break of 1956, which left him with a brain concussion and the other survivor, driver John F. Stevenson ’58, with a fractured jaw and shattered knees. His other two friends in the car, William C. Boyden III ’57 and William S. North III ’58, were killed instantly...
Where Dingell's influence is most vulnerable, by contrast--his Achilles' heel--is Detroit. He risks losing credibility if he becomes the last man standing between the auto industry and increased-mileage requirements. Momentum is building in the Senate--encouraged by President George W. Bush in his State of the Union speech early this year--for a 4%-per-year increase in corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards...
Maintaining his influence on global warming may mean swallowing the 4% pill--washed down, knowing Dingell, by a fountain of federal subsidies for the retooling of American auto plants. Some friends of the chairman believe that Dingell has chosen the toughest bill of his career to cap his historic tenure. If he survives this Congress and wins one more election, he will pass Mississippi's Jamie Whitten as the nation's longest-serving Congressman...