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Starting with Blue Cross in the 1930s ... private insurers have picked up a giant chunk of hospital-doctor bills. In 1965 Congress chipped in, providing Medicare payments for those over 65 and Medicaid assistance for the poor. There are still gaps in the coverage: the 20% or so of the bill that the typical Medicare patient must pay can be a severe burden; the long illness that exhausts inadequate insurance benefits is a terror to the middle class ... Unquestionably, this system has saved innumerable lives and improved the nation's health by encouraging people to seek medical care that they...
Another new breed of software called presence-aware applications understands where and how to contact employees--at all times. European telecom giant Siemens has just released a product called HiPath OpenScape, which allows, for example, a salesperson who is in an important pitch meeting to find a product specialist immediately, whether the specialist is in the office, in the car or at home. Smaller companies like Sylantro, based in Campbell, Calif., offer to phone companies similar products that they house in their networks and that the phone companies can in turn offer to their customers. "We're helping to usher...
...allow economies to specialize in what they do best. Neither imports nor exports are intrinsically good or bad, though hard-pressed American consumers could be forgiven for wondering what a Commerce Secretary who wants to increase the prices of their shopping baskets at Wal-Mart has been smoking. (The giant retailer expects to buy $15 billion of products from China this year.) If the quota limits Wal-Mart's supply of goods, then the Chinese-made robe you were going to buy Aunt Jane for Christmas might not be there...
...visually untethered and threaten to take flight like a bird. While the form is striking, the actual spaces seem less than ideal. Reminiscent of Dutch architect-celebrity Rem Koolhaas’ Second Stage Theatre in Manhattan, the stage’s proscenium is replaced by a giant window that overlooks the street below and doubles as a film screen. Similarly, it becomes clear that Maltzan’s museums are not places that are ideally suited to housing art exhibits—they emphasize horizontal rather than vertical planes and their curved walls present a curator’s nightmare...
...Little Orphan Annie is sure that “Saddam Will Come Out Tomorrow.” The presidential candidates get the long-awaited chance to go on Total Recall Live, where Senator John F. Kerry, D-Mass. finally shines (“You like what I said/With my giant head/Oh I’d blow ’em right away/If I weren’t so beh-i-i-ind”) and Gen. Wesley K. Clark acts his rank (“In matters economic, national and liberal/I am the very model of positions that are General?...