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POLICYMAKERS are trying to counteract the health system's bias towards institutional care. President Bush recently proposed increasing Medicaid coverage to 130 percent of the poverty line for pregnant women and infants. And Representative Mickey Leland (D-Tx.) and Senator Bill Bradley (D-N.J.) have introduced legislation which would expand this ceiling to 185% of the poverty line...
...pregnant, but citizens of San Francisco can now get a little bit married. Last week the city's board of supervisors voted unanimously to adopt a law that officially recognizes the unions of live-in lovers, whether homosexual or heterosexual. Mayor Art Agnos has pledged to sign the bill, which permits couples who have agreed to share basic living expenses to register their "domestic partnerships" at the county clerk's office in a manner similar to filing a marriage license...
Yellowstone has 2.4 million visitors each year, who spend some $43 million inside park boundaries alone. Says Bill Schilling, executive director of the Wyoming Heritage Foundation, a business-backed lobbying group: "Yellowstone is Wyoming's crown jewel. Tourism was seriously impacted throughout the state." Responding to pressure from business interests in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, the Interior Department has decreed that this year every fire in Yellowstone started by natural means, as well as by human carelessness, will be strenuously suppressed...
...perhaps the strongest action yet, Senator Albert Gore last week introduced a bill that would empower local communities to set rates for basic cable services. To increase competition among cable-system operators, the Tennessee Democrat would allow telephone companies to enter the cable business. In addition, the bill asked the Federal Communications Commission to study the cross-ownership of cable networks and systems by the same companies. Said Gore, a frequent critic of the cable industry: "Deregulation has allowed too many cable companies to gouge consumers and left too many consumers as unprotected victims...
Critics of cable have attacked the present industry arrangements on several fronts in Washington. The measures include a bill introduced last month by Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, chairman of the Senate antitrust subcommittee, that would limit the number of subscribers that any system operator could control to 25% of the total U.S. cable audience. The FCC, meanwhile, is preparing a report on the impact of cable deregulation that is due out next year. In a separate action, the agency has begun reviewing a rule that bars broadcast networks from owning cable systems. The networks already have interests in cable channels...