Word: health
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Because Cambridge and Boston are "in robust health," the University does not face the immediate problem of an unsafe or economically downtrodden location, according to Grogan...
HIID now deals with the environment, sociology, education and public health. Starting out with a budget of $3 million in the late 1970s, today HIID uses a budget of between $30 million and $40 million a year to help foreign countries with their development...
Call out the medics! The issue of health care is shaping up to be the bloody main battleground between Democratic presidential candidates Al Gore and Bill Bradley. On Monday Bradley, in a speech to the American Public Health Association, outlined his proposal to blanket 95 percent of the population with health care coverage. Bradley claims his plan will cost $500 to $650 billion over 10 years, and can be easily paid for out of the $1 trillion in expected budget surpluses in that period. At the same time, he dug into Gore as showing a lack of guts...
...remarks were the first time Bradley has fired back at Gore, who has criticized his health care proposal repeatedly over the past three weeks. And within hours, the salvos were continuing, with Gore touting a new analysis of Bradley's national health plan that concludes that it would cover only 1 percent more people than Gore's own plan but cost more than three times as much. "In short, [Bradley] offers a flawed, trillion-dollar plan that will cost the American people even more in the long run," Gore said in a statement...
...decision is oozing with irony: In recent years, the idea of medical "cost-effectiveness" has become synonymous with insurance plan bureaucracy, evoking images of penny-pinching accountants heartlessly rejecting pleas for medical help. Could Tuesday's announcement be the first pebble in an avalanche of new health plan policies? "Sure, it's one company," says TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson, "but it's the second largest in the country, and this is a very important move on their part...