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...wealthy patients, at the expense of those who can't afford it. The fundamental question is: Should health care be provided equally for everyone, or is it fair to pay more for better health care? "Obviously there needs to be a standard of care we should try to obtain at a certain level for everyone in the country, and we're not there yet," says Dr. Raphael Darvish, founder and medical director of Concierge Medicine in Brentwood, Calif. "Beyond that, there are things people should be able to pay extra for." Given the insurance companies' strict rulebook, says Darvish, neither...
...lots of students, the ability to obtain refunds from insurance due to moral convictions is troubling. Sean P. Mascali ’08, president of Students for Choice, said he thinks that students should not have this right...
...courses will be limited in enrollment and will be taught solely by professors. Professor Stephen J. Greenblatt will be co-teaching the Humanities 10 course with Menand. Neither class will employ teaching fellows. The faculty members will lead lectures as well as sections, and students will be required to obtain faculty permission in order to enroll in either of the two courses...
...barred from applying for any entry permit to China in Hong Kong-a sign, perhaps, of China's concern about a potential Muslim terror threat. Mohammed Salim, a Karachi-based trader who makes his living selling fake watches from China, says consular authorities in Pakistan instructed him to obtain his Chinese visa in Hong Kong. But after arriving he was told he would only get a visa for the mainland if he returned to his home country. "They do this just because of where I'm from," he says. "They don't care that I have a family to feed...
...England, but in all honesty the results have been somewhat conflicting. Some studies found a slightly increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Some studies - but not all of them - have found an increased risk of mortality. I think, though, that part of the reason for these discrepancies is that to obtain results from these long-term longitudinal studies, many have to use baseline measurements that were taken in the '50s and '60s. And kids who were examined back then were much, much thinner than kids are now. Even children who would have been considered relatively heavy then are not much heavier...