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By 2001 the federal government will have more than doubled the maximum deduction for student loan interest.
Through 1998, only $1,000 was deductible from federal income tax. This year, the maximum deduction is $1,500 and by 2001 it will be $2,500, about the amount of interest on a $30,000 loan that charges 8 percent interest. The deductions only apply during the first five...
However, recent changes in federal policy on student loan interest more than halved the Massachusetts program's cost and made a change in state policy easier to sell.
Doctors, as they say, bury their mistakes. Now the National Academy of Sciences wants to learn something from those mistakes, and is asking Congress to take strong measures to protect patients from one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. - medical errors. The group issued a report that...
TIME health writer Christine Gorman says the proposal also could help instill a cultural change in the medical industry by making doctors feel it's OK to admit they make mistakes. "Medicine in the U.S. could be safer than it is," says Gorman, "because it doesn't take into account...