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...doubts that managed competition will cure what ails the insurers. The idea, insofar as anyone can comprehend it, is to create a new layer of bureaucracy -- health-insurance-purchasing cooperatives, or HIPCs -- which will contract with insurance companies to provide health-care plans for consumers, including the poor and unemployed. In theory, the HIPCs will force the insurance companies to compete to come up with the lowest-cost plan, which will in turn cause the insurance companies to lean on doctors and hospitals to hold down their costs. Thus, whatever else happens under managed competition, the insurance companies will cease...
...should be stressed, believes beta interferon is a cure for multiple sclerosis. Some patients receiving the drug have continued to deteriorate, while others who appear to have benefited probably would have improved anyway (the disease is often punctuated by remissions). Moreover, the utility of beta interferon for steadily progressive forms of multiple sclerosis -- an unfortunate minority of cases -- has yet to be shown...
...same time we witness people fighting to be treated in inner city emergency rooms. The stakes for them are a sure cure and restored quality of life. This situation is sad, unfair, and totally irrational. Rationing is its solution...
...repeated sequence of DNA, just three base pairs of the millions which make up each human chromosome. With the finding, a quicker and more inexpensive test for the devastating degenerative disease of the central nervous system, and eventually a better understanding of the disease mechanism, may lead to a cure...
Cohen said he and Society chapter presidents are hopeful that the explosion of research activity will result in a cure...