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...American health-care system, the nation's health sector, through the likes of Rick Scott, is rapidly reforming itself. Health inflation, for example, has slowed dramatically. Medical costs rose just 5.3% last year, the smallest increase in 20 years -- largely because enrollment in managed-care plans, which seek to curb wasteful treatment, is growing so quickly. More than half of all American workers are enrolled in such health plans, up from 27% in 1988. Most striking, more than a third of companies offering health benefits to their workers actually reduced their medical bills last year or saw no increases from...
...result of two years of work, the Honor System was created to curb such problems and to respond to the school's increasing emphasis on principled conduct, said Charles T. Lelon '86, a second-year business student and vice chair of the Honor Committee...
...Every day there are 254,000 more people on this planet," he said. "Only education can give the capability of decision and with that the ability to curb population growth and better share present resources...
Patricia M. Andersen, the coordinator of tobacco policy and enforcement for the Cambridge Department of Health and Hospitals, led a discussion among 15 Boston-area antismoking activists about Cambridge's efforts to curb smoking in the community...
...MINORITY COUNTERS THAT PRISons serve a valuable function beyond safeguarding citizens from criminals. "How can you say ((prisons)) have no impact on crime rates?" challenges Charlie Parsons, who heads the FBI's Los Angeles Regional Office. He points to an FBI effort to curb bank robberies that slashed such incidents in Southern California by 37% in a year. "The bottom line is that if you catch somebody after their first bank robbery or after their tenth, you are going to have an impact," he says. Director Peters of Illinois also sees benefit in stiff time. "For many of the inmates...