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...located at the very center of the medical system. They are, as we all know, remarkably adept at weeding out sickly consumers and harassing providers about the need for each and every test or procedure performed. Beyond that, the HIPCs and insurance companies will be doing their best to herd us all into "managed care" plans featuring a limited choice of physicians and strong financial incentives against anything that could be regarded as overutilization. Never mind that utilization has remained constant for the past 10 years, while costs have soared, and that Americans are actually less likely to use doctors...
Baker also has to herd the brood into shelter for the night; although chickens naturally seek the safety of the pen, turkeys demand extra guidance...
...Clinton were there. "He made everything happen," says media consultant Mandy Grunwald. To mainline the candidate's unfiltered personality to the voters, Stephanopoulos orchestrated appearances on talk shows and MTV. He pulled together Clinton's compendium of economic solutions, Putting People First, a task that required him to ride herd on a disparate group of economic advisers, all of whom thought they possessed the cure for the deficit and the qualities to be Treasury Secretary...
...small community of willing star-seekers. It is a cardinal sin to assume an air of conceit in such an environment, for this is not your authentic self you are putting on display, but a mere moment of show beneath which little distinguishes you from the common herd...
...throng, which has been growing steadily, surges ahead. The red iron gates have eased open a crack, enough to let through a single file of supplicants. Inside, 12 Somali guards dressed in battle fatigues and armed with M-16 rifles issue orders. Wielding 3-ft. wooden switches, they herd the people into neat rows at the rear of a large earthen courtyard. In 30 minutes more than 2,000 people are seated on the ground while others stream in: nomad women wrapped in black shawls, grandmothers in tattered sackcloth, lone children naked but for a makeshift shirt. At one point...