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Spike Lee to Lecture for $15,000 Fee...
...committee on security intimidated even the most hardened of potential muggers with a council-funded poster-drawing contest, complete with prizes. Casino Night, a successful and well-planned council social event, despite a $10 admission fee and hundreds of attendees, still somehow managed to lose plenty of money...
...plan is a "pay or play" system that would replace Medicare and Medicaid while ensuring universal coverage as well. Employers would either cover their workers or pay a fee to a taxpayer-supported government system. This government plan would also cover the unemployed, people older than 60 and % Americans with high-cost illnesses, under a so-called global budget, with total annual spending to be set by Congress. While the proposed system resembles the Canadian plan, it would not prevent people from choosing their own doctors...
...plan stirred immediate debate. The Clinton campaign, which has offered its own pay-or-play system, applauded the proposal. The Bush Administration, which opposes fee regulation, attacked it. By far the sharpest criticism, though, came from the 271,000-member American Medical Association, which says the program would inevitably lead to medical rationing. Said Dr. James Todd, executive vice president of the A.M.A.: "Pay-or-play and global budgets are contrary to the American way." Perhaps, but then, so is a system that currently forces millions of American workers and their children to go without medical coverage -- a form...
Some hundreds of students will receive the dreaded "red dot" on their packets, indicating non-payment of fees. These students must pay on the spot or else face a late registration fee...