Word: caring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Opposition leaders say they are in favor of "democratic socialism," implementing free elections but also preserving many of socialism's benefits, such as guaranteed jobs and free medical care...
...says they must make a special effort to strengthen families ties. They say that eating together as a family is very important, although they only have the time to do that two or three times a week. Masters says they have to balance their time between the students they care about and their families...
Forget the World Series. Baseball fans don't care about that. Forget too about winning records and promising, young teams. They only have to do with today. Who cares about today? The baseball fan knows only one thing counts: yesterday...
Despite the substantial costs (average lifetime care for a person with AIDS: about $83,000), a fifth of those infected with the AIDS virus have no insurance at all. Increasingly, these people are flooding into overburdened public hospitals, raising fears of bankruptcies. In August the National Public Health and Hospital Institute reported that in 1987 only 5% of the nation's hospitals, most of them in inner cities, were treating 50% of the country's AIDS patients. Bellevue Hospital Center, which has one of the biggest emergency rooms in New York City, is overwhelmed to the point that care...
...mounting bills for AIDS patients have renewed a call in some quarters for a national medical-care system. "Optimistically, AIDS will push this country into getting universal health insurance," says New York City Health Commissioner Stephen Joseph. "Or we may be reduced to narrow-minded scrambling to see who gets what piece of the pie." However, the current budget crisis, plus resistance to socialized medicine, makes that prospect a far-off solution. In the short run, a combination of public- and private- sector responsibility, translated into cash, seems to offer the best hope for coping with this ongoing human crisis...