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...Ramallah Is Palestine Possible? Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has outlined a unilateral plan to build the infrastructure and institutions for an independent Palestinian state within two years--the first time the Palestinian Authority has attempted to do so. The proposal, which Fayyad intends to move forward on without waiting for the outcome of the peace negotiations with Israel, calls for new seaports and railways and an international airport in the Jordan Valley, as well as a new capital in East Jerusalem. The U.S. welcomed the initiative, although Israeli officials have dismissed it as inviable...
...advocated by President Barack Obama, Democrats William F. Weingarten ’11 and Cyrus B. Kornfeld ’12, asserted that public option will increase care access, while Republicans Colin J. Motley ’10 and Jordan A. Monge ’12, contested that the plan will be costly and inefficient...
Motley argued that a public option will crowd out private providers, suppress competition, and “not solve the problem at an acceptable cost” to the taxpayers. Instead, Motley proposed a four-point plan which he said will stimulate competition and drive down costs...
...plan included lifting restrictions on inter-state insurance purchase, eliminating employer tax exemptions for healthcare, capping amount awarded in malpractice suits, and investing in information technology to increase access to primary care practitioners...
...This isn’t a solution we can live on. We need to do something that will bring cost under control,” Weingarten said of the Republicans’ plan. “We cannot afford to let insurance companies play with our lives and our money as they continue to cover less for more with no incentive to change...