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...awful moment of realization came last week for 1.3 million wired households. From Boston to the Bay, Web-savvy moms and dads discovered their salad days of food delivery on demand were over. There was no option other than that dreary old hunter-gatherer ritual--going to the grocery store...
...sounds revolutionary, but in fact Blue Cross of California is not the first HMO to make such a move. Dr. Harold Hunter, professor and Director of Health Care Administration at California State University, Santa Barbara, says a similar change by UnitedHealthcare (a national HMO based in Minnesota) provided some evidence to Blue Cross that the change wouldn't be a financial disaster. And Hunter says the outcome of the decision will be good for patients, at least for the time being...
...benefits may be short-lived, Hunter warns...
...evidence of success is strictly anecdotal. James Hunter, professor of sociology and religious studies at the University of Virginia and author of "The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil," argues that the actual effectiveness of character education programs is "highly dubious." He writes that "even the very best of these programs ?are unimpressive - not only in their long term but also in their short-term effects." His conclusion is especially devastating: ?"At the end of the day, these programs may do more for adults than they do for children. At least they salve...
Fortunately, provisions of the 1996 federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act had gone into effect not long before the transplant. The law required any company that employed Hunter to provide coverage in spite of his pre-existing condition. When Hunter signed on as a vending-machine repairman with Cromer Food Services, outside Anderson, S.C., full medical benefits came with the job--no questions asked...