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CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Robert Ball, Jesse Birnbaum, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Ellis Cose, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Marguerite Johnson, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias, Michael Walsh, Denise Worrell...
...Patricia Pierce, dean of academic affairs at Yale College, said that a decision has been reached on policy revisions, but will only be announced "in the next couple of weeks...
...PATRICIA Jones' vote may have counted as much as that of every other citizen of the District, but her health did not. In a society that distributes life-prolonging care on an ability-to-pay basis, we have, in essence, decided that some people deserve to live more than others...
WHAT killed Patricia Jones was much more than medical neglect. The doctors and nurses I observed at D.C. General worked in the worst of circumstances with the sickest patients, but they did so with the most dedication and courage of any group that I have ever observed. Ironically, that group will likely get blamed for the one occasion when they failed to perform a superhuman feat...
...real lesson of Patricia Jones is not about D.C. General, or about doctors, or even about hospitals. It is about whether we will continue to allow the free market to mis-allocate health care. It is about whether politicans will allow 38 million Americans to remain uninsured and vulnerable to financial ruin in the event of an accident or illness...