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...almost citrus-y, and a good bite of it hits the roof of one’s mouth. It is the green garnish on top of many Indian and Thai dishes as well as the herb that flavors pico de gallo (chopped tomatoes and onions often served as a Mexican or Tex-Mex condiment). Detractors might call it soapy or grassy, but cilantrophiles are addicted to the lusty spice it adds to just about any recipe, especially salsa...
...both countries become increasingly intertwined, economically and culturally, cross-border health insurance will probably become increasingly common. Says the University of Texas' David Warner: "It will help in the inevitable integration of the U.S. and Mexican medical systems...
California law provides that patients treated in Mexico through hmos licensed to operate in California have the same rights as those receiving care in California. This includes the right to an independent medical review and the ability to sue the insurance company. (Suing a Mexican doctor is more complicated, however, because it must be done under Mexican law). "It will certainly be interesting to see the litigation that comes out of this," says neurologist Grisolia...
Some companies, such as Blue Cross of California, have shied away from the cross-border market. Spokesman Michael Chee says the company prefers to focus ondeveloping low-cost care in the U.S. Aetna teamed upbriefly with a Mexican insurer to market a cross-border HMO a few years ago but bowed out in part because oflower-than-expected enrollment...
Other U.S. states along the Mexican border are studying California's experience. Proponents in Arizona and Texas are hoping cross-border insurance might help reduce the strain on their public-health systems, overrun by patients who--lacking health insurance--wait until they are so sick, they wind up in the emergency room. "Our hospitals are under siege right now," says Marisa Walker, director of the Arizona-Mexico Program at the University of Arizona, who has been studying ways to develop cross-border health care in a state that has as many as 750,000 uninsured. "We definitely need...