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...bulk billing is important, but so is the right of doctors to charge above the standard fee when they see fit. Having abandoned plans to euthanize it, the Coalition is shaping Medicare as less a universal program than a safety net for lowish-income families, who receive an 80% discount on out-of-pocket medical bills exceeding $A300 a year. (For higher income families, the discount kicks in at $A700...
...major military offensive between now and January, and General John Abizaid hinted in remarks on Capitol Hill Wednesday that securing an election would require more troops. In the best case scenario those would be newly-minted Iraqi troops or soldiers sent from other foreign countries, but he couldn't discount the possibility that more Americans may be needed. Pitched battles in rebel-held population centers also have a habit of turning the neutral civilian population against the U.S. and its Iraqi allies, as the experience of Najaf and Fallujah have shown. Then again, the risk of not holding the election...
...that sometimes it's better to be fit than thin. As part of the Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation, researchers found that inactive women, no matter how thin or fat, were much more likely to have heart attacks and other cardiac problems than women who exercised. But don't discount the impact of slimming down. In another study in J.A.M.A., research from the ongoing Women's Health Study found that overweight and obese women--regardless of how regularly they exercised--were up to nine times as likely to develop diabetes as women of normal weight. Bottom line: there...
...Hillel Stavis, who owns the two bookstores, said that both would remain open under bankruptcy protection. He said that he was looking for investment capital to resuscitate WordsWorth Books, a discount bookseller, which he started...
DIED. HERBERT HAFT, 84, pharmacist and discount-store pioneer; in Washington. Haft opened his first shop, Dart Drug, in 1955, and slashed prices on everything from nonprescription drugs to toothpaste. Sued by manufacturers who set prices, Haft ultimately prevailed in a 1960 Supreme Court ruling that triggered a retailing revolution. A family struggle for control of his empire in the early 1990s sundered his marriage and left some of his holdings bankrupt. Haft ceded control in 1997, taking a $50 million settlement...