Word: poore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, these efforts threaten to replace a case study in the failure of the health care system with a case study in the failure of the political system. Expanding prenatal care through the means-tested Medicaid program would reinforce a second-class health care system for the poor--one which may often fail to deliver needed services...
...problem with Medicaid as a health care program for the poor is that it is a health care program for the poor. Recipients are stigmatized and often embarrassed to participate in the system. Doctors, receiving lower rates of payment, often provide a lower quality of care. And the federal government has a ready-made whipping boy should the budget deficit need a trim. Very few speak out for Medicaid on Capitol Hill...
This logic applies to our generation: we can contemplate gifts, because we were allowed to partake in the Harvard community. Harvard still has a long way to go to admit enough women and students from Native American or poor or Black or Hispanic backgrounds and hire a more diverse faculty. But financial aid and recruitment show a step in the right direction...
...poor soul lost en route to Philadelphia who happened to stumble into Farrell Stadium in West Chester, Pa. would have wondered what was going on. Had the year's most important lacrosse game just ended, or had a party just begun...
Party officials cited Kadar's poor health as the reason for his removal, but some Western and Hungarian political analysts speculate that the government wanted him out of the way before it rehabilitated the reputation of Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary at the time of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Kadar is said to have given evidence at the trial of Nagy, who was hanged for treason. Others say that the party, by breaking with "Kadarism," wished to underline its pro-reform stance...