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...save money there will, of course, be trade-offs. Heart transplants that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, extend the lives of almost no one, and take away valuable resources from vastly more beneficial, if banal, activities like prenatal care, will be cut. Rationing will become an open element of the system. But the rationing will move away from its nasty classism toward a more rational ageism...
...brashness of open rationing is not entirely nasty. We have to realize that a longer life expectancy is not a universal good, that we would be a vastly healthier society if we tried to prevent suffering at the beginning of life than extend...
...four years, the list of approved drugs for AIDS patients began and ended with AZT. The drug, also called zidovudine, can extend a patient's life-span, but not everyone can tolerate its side effects, which may include nausea and severe anemia. Now, after billions of dollars of research and constant pressure from AIDS activists, the Food and Drug Administration has bypassed some of its usual requirements to approve another medication, didanosine, known...
This week the House Banking Committee will hold a hearing on the issue, prompted in part by two bills that have been introduced to strengthen cardholder rights. One proposal would let consumers pay off their account balances under the original rate any time rates are raised. Another would extend the grace period between the time of purchases and the application of finance charges...
Even so, Bush has vowed to veto a bill passed by Congress last week to help those for whom the times are toughest: an estimated 2.4 million unemployed workers who have exhausted their jobless benefits. Bush views the price tag as too high -- $6.4 billion to extend benefits for up to 20 weeks -- and contends the measure would bust the five-year budget agreement that the Administration and Congress reached last fall. The jobless-benefits bill has enough votes to override a veto in the House, but probably not in the Senate...