Word: nonprofits
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...that's not all: According to a study released Monday by the nonprofit Josephson Institute of Ethics, almost half of all high school students said they could get a gun if they wanted...
Cost is one barrier. Medicare does not cover hearing aids, nor do most private insurers. Hearing aids range in price from $500 to $3,000 or more. "Here's this thing that's the size of a peanut," says Nicolette Toussaint, 49, communications director for a San Francisco nonprofit organization, "and it costs as much as a used car." Toussaint got her first hearing aid more than 15 years ago. It lasted 10 years--until she left it in the pocket of a pair of jeans she threw into the wash. The replacement cost $4,000. For many people...
...Shoulson, a professor of neurology at the University of Rochester in upstate New York, also chairs the nonprofit Parkinson's Study Group, which investigates and oversees clinical trials for new Parkinson's treatments. Dr. Shoulson spoke with TIME.com Thursday about the study and pointed out a silver lining in the otherwise bleak results...
...people to die simply because they are unable to afford medicines we are capable of producing in plentiful supply. And let's be very clear about this - it's not the drug companies that are at fault here. They're behaving as corporations behave. If they behaved like nonprofit organizations then they wouldn't be corporations. In other words, the questions raised by the Pretoria trial are a challenge to our society as a whole, or at least to the very principle of medicine for profit...
...over the town square in Peoria. Despite privacy protection's rising profile as a political issue, Americans aren't exactly up in arms over protecting their medical records from prying eyes, says Robert Belair, a privacy lawyer in Washington, D.C., and cofounder of Privacy and American Business at the nonprofit Center for Social and Legal Research. "That's partly because this issue gets technical in a hurry," Belair says. "But it's also because the public is fairly pessimistic about privacy - a lot of folks may think their privacy is already gone...