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Critics argue that concierge medicine enriches its practitioners and facilitates care for wealthy patients, at the expense of those who can't afford it. The fundamental question is: Should health care be provided equally for everyone, or is it fair to pay more for better health care? "Obviously there needs to be a standard of care we should try to obtain at a certain level for everyone in the country, and we're not there yet," says Dr. Raphael Darvish, founder and medical director of Concierge Medicine in Brentwood, Calif. "Beyond that, there are things people should be able...
...Atlantic Media Company on Friday, according to officials involved in the deal. The terms of the sale of the publication have not been disclosed. Bom S. Kim ’00 and Daniel M. Loss ’00 founded the magazine, billed as the “Vanity Fair of Harvard,” in September 2006 to publish articles about the school’s alumni and campus events. The acquisition contradicts earlier reports about the magazine’s future. Last month, WWD.com reported that the magazine was on the verge of being bought out by Sandow...
...steady water supply, so it is completely logical and necessary that they have this diversion," says Antonio Cerda, city councilman for agriculture and water. "But Murcia is one of the most important agricultural regions of Spain. We need the water diversion for our economy. It's only fair that we have...
...National Accordance Front has long accused Maliki, a Shi'ite, of being too much of a sectarian partisan to offer evenhanded leadership in a coalition government comprising Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds. That was a fair criticism until November 2006, when the Sadrists, too, began a boycott of Mailiki's government because the Prime Minister refused to press for an American withdrawal. Tensions between the two formerly allied Shi'ite factions built until open clashes erupted in Basra in March, when Iraqi forces attacked Mahdi Army havens there. The move sparked months of fighting that spread across southern Iraq...
...that "our economic struggle with the Japanese is critical to our future" but that "the field where this game is being played is not level." He complained that "their currency manipulation is enough to bring you to your knees." The solution, he determined, was to "replace free trade with fair trade." "We have to take action," he insisted. "If Japan - or any other nation - protects its markets, we should be doing the same...