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There is no way to predict what the American or Chinese system will look like in ten years. If the recession in the U.S. lasts another two years, the amount of GDP that is effectively under government control will increase rapidly as the Administration and Congress do whatever they can to keep large industries from collapsing...
There are countless ways to control costs; some of them, like liability reform, won't easily fly through a Democratic Congress. We held our breath as Mr. Obama drew a line in the sand in front of Big Agra and the teachers union last week, hoping against hope he would continue it across the trial lawyers. But the doctors I know wince whenever electronic medical records are held up as some kind of silver bullet...
...story "Obama's Rx for the budget," you quote the President as saying, "Medicare and Medicaid on their current trajectory cannot be sustained" [March 2]. In my opinion, the only fair way to create a new medical program is to have Congress give up its current coverage and create a program that its members too will participate in. Marilyn Steinhart, BALLWIN...
...TIME's story on blowhard bosses [March 2]: Did the group of researchers at Berkeley really have to recruit students to demonstrate that "leadership is often loudership" and "bigmouths take charge"? Haven't they ever heard of Congress? Robert L. Sullivan, STOUGHTON, MASS...
...Washington A Budget for Change Spending plans in the $3.6 trillion 2010 budget President Obama sent to Congress signal fundamental priority shifts in several key government departments. Some of the biggest new proposals...