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Moreover, these individuals may well use, for two reasons, more health services per capita than those currently insured. First, it's safe to assume that the 33 million uninsured are among America's poorest citizens. As a result, their living conditions and, for those who are employed, their working conditions are more likely to be substandard. In addition, uninsured Americans can't afford preventative medicine, and consequently a new system must devote disproportionate amount of resources to remedy conditions that have gone untreated for years. Second, cost-sharing by the currently uninsured may be impossible--again because these...
This action is as infrequent as it is ironic; in fact, it only occurs one weekend out of the year. Harvard has more individualism per capita than any school in the world. But nevertheless, it is real. For no matter how much we might want to deny it to ourselves, we all look forward to the one weekend when the Crimson takes on the Blue and the College slams...
They would have it wrong, of course. Measured in terms of the number of feminist organizations, journals, support groups and T shirts per capita, the U.S. is the world headquarters of the international feminist conspiracy. The paradox is that all this grass-roots energy and commitment has never translated into hard political power: in 1992, the Year of the Woman, 3% of the Senate and 6% of the House of Representatives is female, proportions that lag embarrassingly behind most European nations...
...industry has grown tremendously because Americans have been forsaking pork and beef over the years and consuming far more chicken: 66 lbs. per capita last year, up from 28 lbs. in 1960. Health is not the only reason -- consumers also know a bargain. At an average 88 cents per lb. for a whole broiler, chicken costs 50% less than it did three decades ago, after adjustment for inflation. One reason for the low prices is that fowl production is concentrated in poor rural areas of the South...
Supply-side economics failed dismally in the 1980s, with taxes dropping but with no real increase in productivity--one real measure of a nation's success. The per capita gross domestic product edged up at a lower rate than in any decade in 50 years...