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Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania is planning to introduce a bill in Congress that would compel hospitals to arrange suitable follow-up care for discharged patients and make local Medicare watchdog agencies responsible for supervising such arrangements. A report to be released later this month by Harvard's Center for Health Policy and Management proposes a more radical solution: revising the Medicare system so it pays for extended nursing-home stays, home care and other outpatient care. Such reform, which could cost $50 billion a year, seems unlikely to win congressional favor in an era of cost cutting...
...participation in religious and spiritual activities, and they rank service to community as more important than men do," Shellenbarger argues. "You're going to tell me that's really sexist, but I show that research has documented it. No one can exactly explain this, but religion and spirituality compel one to reach out to others in service...
...strategy worked in 1989, when Shanghai's leaders avoided a fiasco similar to Beijing's Tiananmen Massacre by persuading students to return to their dorms for the sake of the city's stability. This time around, officials in China's financial capital can only hope the crackdown will compel its citizens to get back to business as usual...
While the satisfaction of training, the camaraderie of teamwork, and the unadulterated glory of DHAs compel many students to participate in Varsity sports on campus, other less polished athletes yearn for the simpler pleasures only fufilled in the pick-up game. Luckily for ballers at the college, a wide variety of venues can be found for impromptu contests any day of the week...
April is a good month for protest. Roughly four years before the Progressive Puker opened his mouth, the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) spent 21 days “occupying” Mass. Hall to compel Harvard to pay its workers a living wage. The criticism of PSLM’s act sounded a lot like the criticism of the Puker. The Crimson, which supported a living wage, argued that the occupation was “unjustified and inappropriate.” A majority of students supported a living wage, but less than a third supported the occupation. The University...