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...It’s fantastic,” Gandy added. “Anybody who was wondering if students still go from angry about an issue to taking action, this should put an end to their speculation...
...There could be structural differences that are at work here: the uninsured could go to different medical facilities or wait to seek medical care,” Meara said. “Doctors may order similar procedures, but make it more difficult for an uninsured patient to receive them. There are still factors worth exploring, but we continue to see evidence that the uninsured are receiving different care, less care...
...canal called the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a classic Army Corps navigation boondoggle that was designed as a shortcut for ships to the Port of New Orleans - although ships rarely use it - and ended up instead as a shortcut for hurricanes. The plaintiffs argued that the so-called Mr. Go - which wasn't a flood-protection project, so theoretically it could be exempted from sovereign immunity - amplified and accelerated Katrina's surge. That happened to be true. In fact, locals have been complaining about Mr. Go ever since it intensified the surge of Hurricane Betsy in 1965; Louisiana politicians...
...reality, though, Mr. Go was not the primary cause of the disaster, and this could yet get the Corps off the hook. Engineers have calculated that it raised the height of the surge by about two feet, still not enough to overtop the most important levees. The canal has carried enough saltwater from the Gulf to destroy an estimated 100 square miles of valuable freshwater wetlands, but that's just a tiny slice of the land-loss crisis. The Corps can still make the case that adequate flood walls would have withstood the extra surge created by Mr. Go...
...more important question is whether the Nov. 18 ruling will lead to the reform of the U.S.'s dysfunctional water-resources system, which consistently produces white elephants like Mr. Go - as well as a little-used $750 million navigation lock a stone's throw from the flood walls that failed during Katrina - but doesn't address the nation's water-resources problems. The Corps was spending more money in Louisiana than in any other state before Katrina, but most of it was wasted on pork projects desired by shipping interests, farming interests, oil interests and other interests that haven...