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...they're right. One evening last week at the grand Manhattan home of former Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher and his wife Georgette, chat among the guests, who included eminence grise Pete Peterson and Sally Jessy Raphael, variously covered Somalia and Bosnia -- and, eventually, Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern. Another guest, the woman who edits both Limbaugh and Stern (as well as Mrs. Mosbacher and Beavis and Butt-head) for Pocket Books, came under attack for publishing Stern's unseemliness. His book, Private Parts, in addition to autobiographical particulars and his not-exactly-progressive views on social issues, flaunts...
...Mark Peterson, associate professor of public policy and political science at the University of Pittsburgh, said that only about a half of American doctors now belong to the AMA and that other organizations have gained power over the last five years...
...Peterson, who addressed a panel on health care at the Kennedy School on Thursday, said, "If the AMA came out with a warm endorsement of the plan, I would be very worried about the plan...
Sharfstein and Sagov also questioned whetherthe AMA could act as a true indicator of the willof most doctors, echoing Peterson...
...Peterson, who has studied health care for a number of years and taught at Harvard until this year, said the United States currently spends 30 to 40 percent more per capita than Canada...