Word: healthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schlesinger points to proposals for the 37 million Americans without health insurance as examples. Bush has suggested allowing people to buy into medicaid, offering a $200 million subsidy, while Schlesinger estimates that $20 billion would be needed. Dukakis has proposed a bill requiring employers to offer health insurance as a benefit, without discussing the public funding which would it would entail. (One member of the Dukakis campaign conceded that, at least on health policy issues, the Democrats may have provided less than the full story...
...pill, called RU 486, a blow to women's rights. More than 1,000 physicians attending a meeting in Rio de Janeiro signed petitions urging that the company, Roussel Uclaf, reinstate the pill. The outcry apparently worked. By week's end, under an unprecedented order from French Minister of Health Claude Evin, the drug company, which is partly owned by the government, abruptly reversed its decision...
...approved by French health officials in September, and is manufactured under the trade name Mifepristone. Administered within the first five weeks of pregnancy, it causes abortions by blocking the action of the hormone progesterone, thus provoking the uterine lining to slough off the embryo. If taken with a prostaglandin, a substance that makes the uterus contract, RU 486 is about 95% effective. Some 8,000 women have used the pill, which has been available only in hospitals and medical clinics and has no harmful side effects...
Sponsored by the antitax crusader Paul Gann, who contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion, and Orange County Republican Congressman William Dannemeyer, the initiative would compel physicians, surgeons, blood banks and test sites to report to public health offices anybody turning up with the HIV virus. Moreover, reporting would be mandatory if there were merely "reasonable cause to believe" a person was infected. HIV carriers would be required to provide authorities with the names of those they might have caught the virus from or passed it to. Dannemeyer, who supported an earlier, unsuccessful ballot proposition requiring the quarantine of AIDS patients...
...victorious candidate is sworn in, his wife dutifully holds the Bible, her gaze uplifted adoringly, and his children, sparkling with intelligence and good health, sit obediently nearby. Or do they? In the midst of this year's no-holds-barred campaign season, families of candidates high and low are beginning to change the old rules by candidly airing their grievances and trying to break out of cardboard caricatures. "They're still reticent," notes Stuart Hart, a psychologist at Purdue University. "But they're also standing up and saying, 'Hey, wait a minute, I've got needs...