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...there are substantive questions too about whether market forces will work as Bush and others promise when profit-driven corporations are called upon to provide care for what Diane Rowland, a health expert for the Kaiser Commission on Medicare and the Uninsured, calls "some of our most vulnerable, frail and lowest-income people." Simply put, would the elderly be able to buy an adequate plan with the sort of subsidy Bush wants to give them? As people near the end of their lives, growing steadily sicker, is it choice they need--or reliable support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Issues 2000: Bush and Gore: Whose Pill Is Sweetest? | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...there are substantive questions too about whether market forces will work as Bush and others promise when profit-driven corporations are called upon to provide care for what Diane Rowland, a health expert for the Kaiser Commission on Medicare and the Uninsured, calls "some of our most vulnerable, frail and lowest-income people." Simply put, would the elderly be able to buy an adequate plan with the sort of subsidy Bush wants to give them? As people near the end of their lives, growing steadily sicker, is it choice they need--or reliable support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whose Pill Is Sweetest? | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

GEORGE W. BUSH Having a problem with verbal slips on champagne frail. After good run, is it a blip or a trend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 4, 2000 | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

...break." Slacker slogans such as "Bite the system!" are everywhere. At a smoke-filled gathering recently, members debated how to sabotage the official opening of an apartment block. "Let's send guys up on the rooftops and shower [people] with leaflets," suggested a member. Not good enough, rejoined a frail girl: Spray the building with graffiti the night before! The mischievous atmosphere evaporated, however, when someone's mother called to say her son had been arrested. "It's the third time this month," said the girl. "We have to get him out." For Otpor, getting out of jail is becoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gen Y Revolution | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...ailing, but strom Thurmond holds the title for political longevity. His challenger, Joaquin Balaguer--92, blind and frail--lost his bid for an eighth term as President of the Dominican Republic last week. A fair fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Thurmond vs. Balaguer, Only the Strom Survives | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

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