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Under the Heritage Foundation proposal, the government's annual payment would vary based on age and sex but not medical condition; Medicare-qualified insurance plans, though, would be forbidden to discriminate against sicker people. This puts much of the burden of risk pooling on private insurers. There would be a tremendous incentive for insurers to "cherry pick"--to try to sign up healthier people--as is happening in a small way now with Medicare's HMO option. Even without purposeful discrimination, healthier people will naturally drift toward the cheaper, less elaborate plans, making them cheaper still--not because of greater...
...states have got rid of prison body-building equipment. Others have begun charging inmates for medications and infirmary visits that used to be free. One of the most popular restrictions is a ban on popular in-cell possessions like the one now in effect in Mississippi, where convicts are forbidden to have their own televisions, record players, radios or computers...
...certain amenities, including adequate recreation, diet and hygiene, are required by the constitutional guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment. That means that some of the harsher get-tough proposals--at least six states, for instance, have considered laws that would permit corporal punishments such as flogging--would probably be forbidden by the courts...
...Group, which prepares the taped messages that Commando Solo airs, have considered morphing the image of a foreign leader and putting words in his mouth to get him in trouble--for instance, Saddam Hussein appearing on Iraqi TV before the Gulf War, sipping whiskey and carving a ham, both forbidden in Islam. (In Haiti the CIA had even thought of synthesizing the voice of the late and much feared dictator Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier to urge superstitious soldiers to surrender.) For now, ethics and strategy argue against such tactics. Says Colonel Jeffrey Jones, former commander of the psy-ops group...
...even inform proctors that the Harvard Police has been (erroneously) informed that a convicted rapist was reportedly bound for Harvard to visit a student enrolled in the secondary school program. The Harvard Police went so far as to stake out the room of the student involved, but proctors were forbidden to discuss the problem with students, even to squelch the resulting rumors...