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...health-care dilemmas": The 800-pound gorilla in the room is medical-malpractice lawsuits. If those were brought under control, health-care costs would drop dramatically. Physicians would have no reason to practice "lawsuit prevention." But it won't happen. Most people in our government are lawyers. Robert K. Wismer, MILLERSVILLE...
According to a recent report, 131 million people would take the deal of a public health-care plan, including two-thirds of those who now have private insurance. What does that say about the wishes of the American people? Yet the worry seems all about driving the private health-insurance industry out of business. There are at least two bills now in Congress that would provide a universal public plan--including how to pay for it--and help health-insurance workers displaced by it. But it looks as though we once again may wind up with what the lobbyists...
...important to you are the critics' reviews of your films? Do you still look at them or care? Jeffrey N. Golub, SEATTLE
...semiofficial arbiter of such matters, as a "significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy." It's certainly better for economic activity to be increasing rather than decreasing, but the focus on whether the economy is in recession or not can miss a lot. "I don't care about what the dating committee says. I'm concerned about longer-term issues," says Yale economist Robert Shiller. "We are in for an extended period of subnormal economic growth." Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive officer of bond-investing giant Pimco, has popularized a catchier if less informative phrase for what...
...Washington Health-Care Battle Heats Up With details of the much heralded health-care overhaul beginning to trickle through the capital, interest groups are gearing up for a fight. President Obama's June 13 proposal to cut $313 billion in Medicare and Medicaid spending over 10 years rankled hospitals, and doctors bristled because of his refusal to endorse caps on malpractice claims in a speech to the American Medical Association two days later. Some physicians also oppose a public-health-insurance option, a centerpiece of Obama's plan. Anticipated draft legislation has been delayed while Capitol Hill continues to haggle...