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...bolster investor confidence in Brazil. But the country's President knows much more is required. Two weeks before the election, Cardoso went on national television and explained that the country will have to learn "to live within its means." Which means, for starters, that Mayor Almeida can expect a pay...
Doctors and hospitals set their own fees for the services they provided. Health-insurance companies would simply pay these fees, funneling big profits to doctors and hospitals. Academic medical centers like Duke used this money to subsidize advanced research and medical schools and to care for uninsured patients. The problem: with nothing to limit medical fees, costs doubled every five years...
...hometown. His suburban Chicago district is just a few miles from the Howard Street apartment where he grew up. One flight up from a saloon, the flat was all the family could afford during the Depression, as his father barely held on to his job collecting nickels from pay phones. His parents were Democrats by default. "If you lived in Chicago in the '30s, you were a Democrat," says longtime friend Philip Corboy. The stronger influence in Hyde's life was Catholicism. Coaxed by his mother, he attended St. George, a Catholic high school run by the Christian Brothers...
...Democrats' 1996 ad campaign painting Gingrich as an extremist and making him more vulnerable to the subsequent congressional investigation into his ethics. (For making political use of a tax-exempt organization, Gingrich became the first Speaker in history to be punished by the House; he was forced to pay a $300,000 fine.) Meeting with Democratic leaders the day the Starr report arrived on Capitol Hill, Gingrich could not resist rehashing how unfairly he thought he had been treated. He had done more for President Clinton in this scandal, he said bitterly, than anyone from the Democratic Party had done...
...time to learn about how these places work. You just want them to take care of you. One of the great democratic privileges of American society is the premise that all people have a right to the best possible care, regardless of whether they have the means to pay for it; the law requires hospitals to treat anyone who walks in the door. But today that promise is caught in a collision between money and medicine that is occurring in hospitals all over the country--nowhere more than in the elite academic medical centers that have always...