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...suprising. As Vice President, in 1985 he cast the deciding vote in favor of increasing out of pocket expenses for elderly medicare recipients. With his patrician upbringing, Bush doesn't seem to understand middle-class dilemmas such as, "Should I go to the doctor about that hacking cough, or should I buy shoes for my children...
...things wrong with ourselves. We feel under siege." Everyday ailments, from tension headaches to forgetfulness, that would once have been dismissed as normal are now seen as a symptom of disease. "We're told that everything is an early-warning sign, from night sweats and gas pains to dry coughs," says Barsky. "But it's normal for some people to sweat at night, a dry cough will probably go away, and gas pains are gas pains." Americans, he declares, "have to stop running around trying to cure the ailments of everyday life and make peace with themselves...
Thirsty West Virginians who plunk quarters into soda machines help finance a state medical school. Cigarette smokers in Washington State cough up $31.7 million a year to clean Puget Sound, while home buyers in Maryland pay transfer fees that help buy new parklands. This practice of earmarking taxes for specific government functions is growing steadily: at least 18 states have adopted targeted taxes since mid-1984, and dozens more such levies -- for schools, police, roads, drug-abuse treatment -- are pending in states from California to Michigan...
...them fail in their assault. They are repelled by the tough barrier of the skin, overcome by the natural pesticides in sweat, saliva and tears, dissolved by stomach acids or trapped in the sticky mucus of the nose or throat before being expelled by a sneeze or a cough. But the organisms are extraordinarily persistent, and some occasionally breach the outer defenses. After entering the bloodstream and tissues, they multiply at an alarming rate and begin destroying vital body cells...
...viruses sometimes survive, while the weakened versions often fail to cause an immune response.) In general, however, the vaccines have been quite effective; in recent years the National Academy of Sciences has reported only a handful of polio and diphtheria cases and only a few deaths caused by whooping cough and rubella. Maurice Hillemen, director of Pennsylvania's Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research, characterizes the early vaccine era as the "stumbling-along period...