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...happy to leave aside, and there's a chance politicians on both sides of the divide could be punished for it. --Reported by Perry Bacon Jr., John F. Dickerson, Viveca Novak and Douglas Waller/Washington; Chris Taylor and Laura Locke/San Francisco; Anne Berryman/Athens, Ga.; and Barbara Maddux/New York with other bureaus...
Worried about your credit information? Congress made some major changes to the Fair Credit Reporting Act last month that should help assuage your fears. By the end of next year, consumers will be able to obtain one free credit report a year from each of the three credit bureaus--Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. Consumers will also be able to opt out of having financial firms share their personal data for marketing purposes. And creditors will have to tell consumers before reporting negative information to credit bureaus. Such provisions should help consumers control their credit information and stave off the rise...
...battle against them has stalled. Schistosomiasis is just one example. Diseases like tuberculosis and hepatitis B, which could have been curbed by a more public-minded health-care system, are now spreading largely unchecked. China has had a cheap vaccine for hepatitis B available since 1985. But local health bureaus were loath to offer it free of charge, because the vaccine was a crucial source of income. As a result, 10% of Chinese are now carriers of the potentially fatal liver disease, compared with less than 1% of Americans. Even today, China is the only one of the 37 nations...
...beginning in the 1980s, as China's drive to capitalism kicked into higher gear, Beijing extended market reforms to health care?with disastrous consequences. Local health bureaus were stripped of their government funding and forced to become financially self sufficient. To survive, many local clinics eschewed public-minded immunization drives for more profitable ventures, like selling medicine and services at inflated prices. The social pitfalls of this system were laid bare in a 1998 United Nations-led survey, which found that almost half of those who had fallen below China's poverty line did so only after suffering from...
...chronic neglect has decimated villages like Xinmin. By the early 1990s, local health workers no longer had a budget to spray antisnail pesticide around Dongting Lake, where Xinmin is located. Free schistosomiasis checkups and medicine stopped as well. Now funding for local clinics once proudly designated as "antisnail-fever bureaus" has also dried up; to make ends meet, many have opened up moneymaking clinics for sexually transmitted diseases and osteopathy. Consequently, just as China was proudly announcing that it had defeated snail fever, the mollusk began returning. Last year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Health, 810,000 people...