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Hospital care in Bedford, Ind., is an odd case of capitalism in action--maybe even hyperaction. Should you get into a car wreck on Highway 50 as it passes through town, two local hospitals can send ambulances to compete for your business. If you are sufficiently alert, you can choose between Dunn Memorial Hospital and Bedford Regional Medical Center. To avoid unseemly tugs of war, the city requires that the hospitals alternate pickups of victims not well enough to state a preference. And the police are on hand to sort things out. "They'll back off when...
...same, competition to deliver medical care in Bedford can get fairly heated. When the two hospitals aren't squabbling over roadside opportunities, they are engaged in a larger struggle for the sick and elderly in this town of 15,000. Their philosophies are at opposite extremes of today's health-care debate. Bedford Regional has eagerly embraced managed care and linked itself to a statewide hospital chain. County-owned Dunn is sticking to an almost Norman Rockwell vision of traditional health care. The hospital war being waged nationally is taking place here in microcosm; it is at institutions like Dunn...
Crew was not Dana's first love. As a child growing up in Bedford, New Hampshire, Dana was an academic stand-out who lacked athletic ability, which she attributes to "no eye-hand coordination...
State Senator Mark C. Montigny (D-New Bedford) says that Birmingham has changed the way things are done in the Senate...
...loop, I recognized the names of only six of your silly 25 Most Influential. Last year I recognized eight. But I can't remember who they were, and neither does anyone else. JOYCE TRACKSLER Bedford, New Hampshire...