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Also contributing to a sense of community is the newly renovated Goodrich Hall, which mixes a social space with a study area. The gourmet coffee bar helps students deal--albeit artificially--with their procrastination habits, and is open all night. Sawyer Library is open, but discourages procrastination by closing at 1 a.m. The always-busy Snack Bar is nice for a study break, especially if you've been holed up in the library...
Tonight the Crimson is in New Jersey to take on Princeton. The Tigers boast a very talented lineup that is out to prove it is still a team to be reckoned with, even with the departure of standout center Steve Goodrich, and star point guard Mitch Henderson...
Originally designed to shield employee benefit plans from frivolous but potentially crippling lawsuits, ERISA evolved over time to protect HMOs from liability suits by anyone--except Medicare and Medicaid recipients, church officials and government employees like Goodrich. Others can go to court, but at most they are entitled to recover the cost of the care that their HMO refused to reimburse. Not much consolation...
Some HMOs are attempting their own limited reforms. Just a month before the Goodrich award, all HMOs in California agreed to submit to review by an outside panel of doctors. Fifteen states allow patients to appeal HMO decisions to a state board, though critics say the panels almost always side with the insurer...
...this political to-and-fro-ing doesn't impress Goodrich's widow Teresa much. "He was incensed by the way he was treated," she recalls. "It offended his sense of justice." To her, the obvious solution lies in the simple maxim that her husband lived by: Do right by people...