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...Human Services Tommy Thompson wrote to the AHA in February, however, saying the suggestion that hospitals must charge list prices "is not correct and certainly does not accurately reflect my policy." A Texas hospital administrator is blunt about why hospitals pursue the medically indigent: "The driving force is to badger them so they don't come back...
...were ready,” Bothwell said. “We knew they had a great sprint, but it [the Badger lead] went from a couple seats to a length up very quickly...
...available to any citizen--the law and public opinion ... Yet Nader has managed to cut through all the protective layers and achieve results. He has shown that in an increasingly computerized, complex and impersonal society, one persistent man can actually do something about the forces that often seem to badger him--that he can indeed even shake and change Big Business, Big Labor and even Bigger Government. "My job is to bring issues out in the open where they cannot be ignored," says Nader, chopping his hands, as he often does when he speaks. "There is a revolt against...
...Iraq: coarsening some Americans abroad, killing others. The film contains previously unseen footage of U.S. soldiers' abuse of Iraqi detainees last Christmas Eve. Toward the end, Moore returns home to Flint to grieve with the parents of a dead soldier, then goes to Washington in a quixotic attempt to badger members of Congress into volunteering their sons and daughters for military service...
...Baba has a hard-on," while another G.I. shouts, in a schoolboy's merry derision, "You touched his dick!" Toward the end of the film, Moore returns home to Flint to grieve with the parents of a dead soldier, then goes to Washington in a quixotic attempt to badger Congress into volunteering their sons and daughters for military service. Fahrenheit 9/11 is necessarily less personal than Bowling for Columbine and lacks its freewheeling gusto. But it's a fascinating collection of talking points in this election year. In Moore, the American left has its canniest Bush ambusher, its savviest guerrilla...