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Norton says it the government withdraws itself as the major payer of medical education, there will be a dramatic change in the way future medical leaders will be trained...
...painfully achieved. "We look at cuts as unfunded mandates,'' says Mark Laret, deputy director of the Medical Center at ucla, which stands to lose some $16 million. "We are supposed to provide all the same services and do it with less. Medicare, to its credit, is the only payer that contributes anything to the cost of medical education, and that has got to change.'' UCLA has already talked with several local hmos about a premium tax to finance teaching functions. Others have suggested imposing such a surtax on all insurance premiums. Says Bruce Kelly, the director of government relations...
...most basic current political issues. It is difficult to take seriously someone identifying herself as a "concerned citizen" and Democratic campaign activist who has nothing more substantive to say on the health care problems facing America than that she goes with her "instincts" in recommending a single-payer system...
...There's also a notice that's sent, certified mail, that the lien is going to be placed," Riley said, "so that a tax-payer would be fully aware that this is happening...
...observed, "people who want to do nothing and people who want to do too much are peeling off," leaving only a minority interested in modest steps and compromise. One of those splitting off on the left was Representative Jim McDermott, a Democrat from Washington State who favors a "single payer" health system in which the government pays all medical bills from tax revenue. He declared last week that he could not support any incremental reforms, observing that Congress is "getting into that political mode where you want to do something just so that it looks like you've done something...