Word: health
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...squibs into the rough. Ask him what's wrong with the campaign-money game or Clinton's foreign policy, and McCain can be dazzling--puzzled and outraged but full of strong, simple ideas for cleaning up the mess. Ask him, however, about the concerns that actually drive elections--health care, education, Social Security, what he listlessly calls our "various domestic challenges"--and he can seem as lost and bored as a Sherpa in Kansas. He'll say, "We have to do a lot more" about this or "We've got to pay attention" to that, then lapse into an autopilot...
...Freedom to Innovate crowd argues that by bringing lawsuits like this one, the government is meddling dangerously with private industry and, consequently, the health of the entire U.S. economy. The most extreme remedies, they say, are a clear intrusion--a judge's breaking up a company, or forcing it to share trade secrets with its competitors. But the milder ones--such as stopping a corporation from engaging in certain anticompetitive actions--may even be worse. "You'd have a judge in effect as CEO, micromanaging every decision," warns Jeff Eisenach, president of the conservative Progress & Freedom Foundation...
...says. She has since studied her options and decided on a tubal ligation: a common procedure, usually performed after delivery, that permanently prevents pregnancy. "It has taken me since I was 17 to get off welfare and get a good job," says Campos, who has just left her public health counseling job in Gilroy, Calif., to prepare for the birth. "I love my children, but nine is way more than enough...
...tubal ligations were performed at South Valley Hospital. In fact, nearly a fifth of all deliveries were immediately followed by the operation, which takes 15 min. and can often piggyback on the same epidural painkiller used during labor. So what changed? Well, South Valley became St. Louise Regional Health Center, and the hospital's new owner--Catholic Healthcare West--required the newly configured hospital to abide by the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, a set of 70 regulations issued by Roman Catholic bishops...
...directives proscribe abortion and a host of reproductive services, including birth control, morning-after pills and sterilization. "We can't say we're opposed to abortion as a profound human evil and then go out and build an abortion clinic," says Father Michael Place, president of the Catholic Health Association, which represents more than 2,000 Catholic facilities in the U.S. "We can't be other than...