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...must constantly thwart existential threats, Israel has no choice but to raise the question of loyalty to the state, especially when at least a percentage of its Arab population wishes for Israel’s dissolution. This is not to say that the issue of loyalty in this small nation doesn’t sometimes exude the same right-wing xenophobia that it does in the U.S.—just ask Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who wouldn’t seem to mind if all of Israel’s Arabs simply disappeared from the population...
...offer coverage to anyone who applies, even those with pre-existing medical conditions. By contrast, a slight plurality of 48% opposed requiring all but the smallest businesses to provide health care, and 56% of Americans opposed taxing employer-provided health care to pay for the cost of covering the nation's uninsured. (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...
...morning who is a medical expert, worked at McKinsey for a while, he's now working on our health care team - and he just ran through: We pay 77 percent more on prescription drugs, we're paying $6,000 more per individual on health care than any other industrialized nation; here's all the failures in the delivery system that account for it. It's not just because we are somehow more obese or more unhealthy. It turns out actually we're a little bit healthier than most of these other countries because our smoking rates are lower...
Congressional Democrats and a barnstorming President face deep skepticism from the American public about the details of their effort to change the nation's health-care system, even as enthusiasm for the prospect of reform remains high, according to a new TIME poll...
...Iran doesn't engage in talks, he would move ahead "in the early fall" with a widely supported bill that would ban U.S. commercial ties with any company that sells refined petroleum products to Iran. Despite Iran's massive oil reserves, its lack of refining capacity forces the nation to import almost half the gasoline it consumes. Berman introduced the bill at Ross's urging last spring. (See pictures of Ahmadinejad's supporters on LIFE.com...