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...insurance-company bureaucrats denying lifesaving drugs and medical procedures--has forced HMOs to ease restrictions that helped hold insurance prices down. What's more, growing numbers of businesses and consumers are abandoning HMOs. In California, the state that pioneered managed care, the percentage of people enrolled in HMOs has fallen below 50% for the first time in eight years. Most are moving toward costlier plans with higher premiums and more out-of-pocket expenses...
...Practically every surgical resident I know has fallen asleep at the wheel driving home from work," writes another. "I know of three who have hit parked cars. Another hit a 'Jersey barrier' on the New Jersey Turnpike, going 65 m.p.h...
...Also Rises came to be regarded as the testament of the Lost Generation, so it seems certain that On the Road will come to be known as that of the Beat Generation.” But true as Millstein’s words are, his predictions have still fallen short of capturing the work’s full significance. The present popularity of On the Road represents more than simply a spot-on historical reference point. It proves that unlike his style, Kerouac’s angst-ridden themes span generations...
...train the mujahedeen. In the ’50s and ’60s, Pakistani bases were used by American U-2s spying on the Soviet Union. Today, those very bases have become staging grounds for the war on terror. Yet America’s ally has fallen on hard times. Pakistan is a country held hostage by its own “special interests”—the Afghan jihad, Saudi funding and government mismanagement. The more important reality, however, is that Pakistan’s current government has declared war on these thugs and the things...
...considers insufficient government oversight. “Nobody seems to be doing anything about it,” Cook explains, “because something that touches, or even perceives to touch, the abortion issue, becomes very highly politicized.” As a result, Cook says, clinics have fallen through the cracks. “There’s also the problem that infertility specialists are the highest-paid physicians today,” he adds. “It’s kind of absurd—they really don’t have to produce anything. They?...