Word: caring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economic interests ahead of, well, everything else in the world. In the 1960s, the AMA opposed the creation of Medicaid and Medicare, for fear that government help to the poor and elderly might slice into physician profits. In the early 1970s, one president of the AMA declared that "health care is a privilege and not a right...
OVER the last ten years, costs under the Medicare program have risen at more than four times the rate of inflation. Thousands of senior citizens are grappling with increasing health care costs that outpace their income growth by more than 50 percent...
...controversial pamphlet picturing a pitiful old woman, the AMA called Congressional efforts to set targets for Medicare spending "rationing." But every acknowledged senior citizen group in the country, legislators from both parties and President Bush say that the proposal is needed to keep health care affordable...
...opponent, strongly pro-choice, had done nothing to alienate the AMA except call for expanded health care in the tradition of the late Claude Pepper...
...typical Chinese nursery school combines day attendees and quan tuo | (literally "whole care") students. From Monday through Saturday, with the exception of Wednesday evenings, a quan tuo student lives at his school around the clock, a situation no one seems to think the least bit odd. For despite filial devotion and the supposed centrality of family life, long separation is common in China. It is not rare for spouses to work in different cities and see each other infrequently. Similarly, far from signaling neglect, paying to deposit a three-year-old in another's care for a week away from...