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...billion this year. "Something had to be changed," TIME's Bruce Crumley says. "The population is getting older so there are fewer people paying into the system. Between now and 2005 the system will break down unless there are significant changes." The new measures step up efforts to monitor patient's costs and call for punishments to doctors who surpass budgets for the care and prescriptions they provide. The government's goal is to keep medical bills from rising more than 2.1 percent this year, after an increase of nearly five percent last year. "The government is trying...
While Perot is true to form, even a bit crankier, his following is changing. For one thing, it's smaller. In the latest TIME/CNN Election Monitor, a continuing poll of registered voters, only 15% call themselves Perot supporters, down from 20% five months ago. He is losing support fastest among the affluent and educated, who also tend to vote the most. Independent voters, says a poll by the Pew Research Center, would now prefer a generic third-party candidate to the razor-tongue billionaire...
...hate to get up and use a computer will soon be able to channel- and Net-surf on the same screen. This week Gateway 2000, the PC direct marketer, will introduce the long-promised big-screen PC. The $4,000 Destination consists of a PC with a 31-in. monitor, a wireless keyboard and access to television signals and the Internet. Mix in a high-speed modem and a friendly interface that helps byte phobiacs navigate the Net, and you'd have interactive television. Not a reality yet, but no longer a mere fantasy. (1-800-846-2000) --By Robertson...
...cannot play outdoors because the sun's rays would further damage his skin. He breathes through a tracheotomy tube, and at the age when most children are beginning to talk, he can emit only a gurgle. At night he sleeps attached to a ventilator, a humidifier and a heart monitor. He has undergone surgery 12 times in the past 12 months...
...impetus for change is coming from the Advisory Council on Social Security, a group appointed every four years to monitor the system. A formal report isn't due until May, but Senate hearings on the council's recommendations begin this week anyway. Split on the specifics, the 13-member panel is nonetheless unanimous on the need for radical change. "If we stick to the plain old pay-as-you-go system, we'll have to raise taxes or cut benefits," says the group's chairman, Edward Gramlich, dean of the University of Michigan's public-policy school. "Either...