Word: ideas
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...idea of co-payments is an important one in the health care system. Co-payments expand individual responsibility and make people realize that the health care they receive does not come without costs. By making each person pay $10 each time he or she visits the doctor's office, patients are more likely to value the advice and treatment they receive. In addition, the $10 co-payment acts as a check on frivolous visits that can clog up doctor's offices and lead to medical inflation...
...seven years? "Yes...but only by cutting X; cutting X + 2 percent is evil and amoral." Mr. Clinton, after your call for the end of the "era of big government," may we assume that you now agree that your 1993 budget with its massive tax hike was a poor idea? "Yes...but it wasn't all bad." In short, Clinton's strategy for the election year seems to be to draw the line where there isn't a grain of sand left to be found...
While some first-year actors might find daunting the idea of auditioning for so many shows in a short time period, Shuman, after trying out for Common Casting two years in a row, said the process generally makes auditioning easy for anyone with theatrical aspirations...
...When we hired an architect and looked at how the program would actually work, the idea of using the central hall as a graduate reading room soon became a problem," Parsons said...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty reports that the Republican leadership may be ready to negotiate a balanced budget agreement that does not include the tax cuts that have been a chief sticking point during negotiations: "Senate sources say Budget Chairman Pete Domenici is quietly floating the idea of trying to pass two pieces of legislation that would separate the tax cut from the balanced budget. Republicans would first pass a budget plan, and then address tax cuts." While the idea is likely to get a good reception in the Senate, Tumulty notes, it faces steeper opposition in the House...