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...talking about a national identity card - an idea that Silicon Valley mogul Larry Ellison has proposed in order to enhance national security. The card, according to Ellison's notion, would contain basic information about the holder, including social security number, digital records of thumbprints, and a link to a federal database...
...think again. The ID has been proposed as a way of preventing what happened on September 11. Of the 19 hijackers, only two were in this country illegally. Would the others have attracted police attention if they had to apply for some kind of national identity card, which required valid visas, pictures, fingerprints? Perhaps. Would such ID documents be helpful in tracking down the terrorists? Probably...
...inflation. Much as 401(k) savings plans have supplanted old-fashioned guaranteed pensions, such consumer-driven health plans aim to shift the responsibility--and risk--of employer health insurance to the rank and file. "We've taught people that when they put down a $10 bill and an HMO card, they're entitled to everything," says Lee Newcomer, a managed-care veteran and now chief medical officer at benefits start-up Vivius. "If you give consumers a system indifferent to price, they won't worry about the price...
...cardiologist. HealthAllies provides a wide selection of discounted services not typically covered, from laser surgery and acupuncture to vision care and in-vitro fertilization. MyHealthBank, which has partnered with Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield to focus on small employers in the Northwest, hopes eventually to offer consumers a debit card to have their visits to the doctor automatically paid out of their accounts. In such a competitive market, says Harvard Business School professor Regina Herzlinger, doctors will finally offer services that consumers really want, such as integrated teams to better treat chronic illnesses, which account for close to 80% of health...
...just have to improvise. The first thought that comes to mind is buying some of the creams and potions that regularly appear on the last few pages of every Glamour, but ordering a product featured fewer than two inches away from Ms. Cleo’s Tarot Card Reading is just too sketchy. In the still readable section of Glamour, there is an ad for the “all-natural” Bloussant that caught my eye. Miss “no-I-don’t-have-a-face-just-all-natural-copious-cleavage” has opened...