Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...June, Morgan was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 18th round of baseball's amateur draft. He played with Toronto's rookie league team in Medicine Hat, Alberta (Canada) over the summer and is currently with the Blue Jays' instructional league team in Dunedin, Florida, outside of Clearwater...
...question is no longer which is the better school, but which school offers the "better buy." Longtime the domain of professional athletes who have achieved free-agency--the practice is to sign with whichever team makes the best offer (for the running back Rocket Ismail, this meant playing in Canada instead of the NFL)--we cannot ethically superimpose the practice on college admissions...
...longer waiting times and rationing of specialists' services. "Most people would be forced into HMOs because that's all they would be able to afford," says Representative Jim McDermott, a Democrat from Washington State who has proposed a "single-payer" health-care system similar to the one in Canada. White House officials privately explain that pushing more Americans into HMOs and PPOs is crucial to cost control, but that is a point the President prefers not to discuss...
...drawing lines not unlike Oregon's. Companies "will make rationing decisions in the privacy of their own boardrooms. I'd anticipate seeing significant cutbacks in care," predicts Steffie Woolhandler, a co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program, which advocates the single-payer form of health care like Canada's tax-based government plan...
Peterson, who has studied health care for a number of years and taught at Harvard until this year, said the United States currently spends 30 to 40 percent more per capita than Canada...