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...experience for a country that had never gone willingly into foreign entanglements. Only late in World War I was Woodrow Wilson finally forced to send a New World expeditionary force to rescue the Old. Even then American opinion was not fully convinced it was necessary to fight Kaiser Bill. When the victorious doughboys sailed home, they were almost ignored, and when they marched to Washington to demand a promised veterans' bonus, the U.S. Army drove them out of town...
...plan: rationing of procedures, a narrower choice of doctors. Fueling the backlash has been a spate of front-page stories about plans that will pay for cataract surgery in only one eye or that keep doctors from discussing expensive types of care. In a recent nationwide poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation, an independent health-care philanthropy, 55% of those in managed care said they worry that their health plan is concerned more about saving money than providing the best care. That negative feeling isn't helped by the premium increases of 5% to 10% that some patients discovered this...
...brochure. You bet it is--on us. Like lambs to the slaughter, we must make our "health-care elections" by Nov. 30, which means paying more money for less care, even as the cost of other necessities, like bread, milk and Big Macs, is holding steady. My insurer, Kaiser, has hiked premiums 18% since the Clinton health-care bill died a miserable death in 1994. And 8% fewer Americans have health insurance because their employers have decided it just costs too much. Boy, did we show that busybody Hillary a thing or two. It's true that there aren...
...former assistant professor of maternal and child health at SPH; Stephen G. Pauker, vice chair of the department of medicine at Tufts University; Marc J. Lallemant, former visiting scientist in the department of cancer biology at SPH; Harvey V. Feinberg '67, provost of Harvard University and Milton C. Weinstein, Kaiser professor of health policy and management and biostatistics...
Meanwhile, Dustin Kaiser is trying to navigate his way through the death of his best friend, the thicket of rage surrounding him and his own confused thoughts on race. "My cousins and uncles wanted to go there and kill them all," he says. One relative phoned to say he had 2,000 rounds left over from the military. His mom said she wanted to "flatten Flint." Kaiser himself tries to express yet contain his anger, using the only words he has at his reach. "Not all black people are niggers. And there are some white people who are niggers. Those...