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Next time University Health Services (UHS) suggests a Band-Aid as a cold remedy, students may have the chance to hold Harvard College’s health care provider more accountable. UHS, in collaboration with the Undergraduate Council, announced Wednesday that students will be able to fill out online evaluations of services they receive at UHS beginning this fall. During Mental Health Week, which kicked off Feb. 23, the UC passed legislation recommending that the College-UHS Advisory Committee create a survey to solicit feedback on UHS visits on a periodic basis. Susan I. Putnins...
...Aboriginal society. Since a searing official report on the practice appeared in 1997, Australia's six state governments have made apologies. But Rudd's speech, in its repeated use of the word sorry, had the immediate effect of easing white guilt and softening Aboriginal pain. Previous governments took "a Band-Aid approach" to problems in the Aboriginal community such as ill-health, poor education and alcoholism "by using money to try and fix it," says Uniting Church minister Sealin Garlett. "Today the government has focused on the spirit...
...billion measure at issue, passed last week by the House of Representatives, is the latest one-year band-aid to fix the AMT. Created in 1969 to ensure that the rich would pay at least a minimum amount of tax annually, the AMT has ended up walloping an increasing share of the middle class. This year 21 million "ordinary" Americans will be hit by it if Congress doesn...
...SCHIP program. For large families who lack employer-provided health insurance, even $80,000 may not be sufficient to cover healthcare costs. Congress must override Bush’s veto to help provide increased coverage for America’s most vulnerable children. But SCHIP is a mere band-aid for a health care system that is fatally flawed. Americans spend twice as much as other developed countries for health care–about $7,000 per person per year–but lack the high quality of care and system efficiency of many other industrialized nations. Wealthy patients receive...
...Darjeeling Limited, the new semi-comedy from Wes Anderson that had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 3. As Francis, the eldest of the three Whitman brothers, he's clearly in physical distress. His head is wrapped in two thick bandages. His nose has a Band-Aid on it. His right hand and wrist are taped, and he uses a cane to walk...