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...threatened presidential veto, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain will continue to forcefully defend a popular bill that would ban torture of prisoners in U.S. custody. Before Christmas, legislators are also expected to undertake an extension of the USA Patriot Act, which provides anti-terrorism tools to law enforcement, a Band-Aid for troubled corporate pensions, and immigration reform, a complicated issue that splits along party and geographic lines...
When it comes to malpractice, the medical community seems open to experimentation. Limits on damages for pain and suffering, like the $250,000 federal cap that President George W. Bush has tried in vain to get through Congress, are increasingly seen as little more than a Band-Aid: recent studies cast serious doubt that such caps would make malpractice-insurance premiums cheaper. Meanwhile, long-term options, like a no-fault system with specialized medical courts and expert judges, are still largely in the theoretical stage...
...vast market for individual policies. But experts are skeptical that even a giant chain like Costco can provide comprehensive, reasonably priced coverage to people who can't afford it now. Given that health-care costs are rising faster than working families' income, Costco's plan "may be a helpful Band-Aid," says E. Richard Brown, director of UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research. "But it won't stop the hemorrhaging." What's needed, he says, is not a fragmented free market but "a publicly accountable and organized system of health insurance." --By Margot Roosevelt, with reporting by Logan Orlando
...Incremental regulatory improvements have failed to reverse the slide because they are Band-Aid solutions to wide-ranging, well-known problems. China's stock markets are afflicted by poor regulatory supervision, rampant insider trading, lack of corporate transparency, shady stockbrokers, and frequent government intervention. Investors dislike uncertainty, and in China, risk takes many surprising forms. In November, for example, the government suddenly rotated the top executives of its four listed, state-owned telephone companies, sending them to work for former competitors. Corporate corruption is commonplace?police have confirmed criminal investigations at eight listed companies so far this year, according...
...bring people together whether they like it or not and we tackle complex problems—not with band-aid solutions, but with major reform and real change,” he said...