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Moreover, these individuals may well use, for two reasons, more health services per capita than those currently insured. First, it's safe to assume that the 33 million uninsured are among America's poorest citizens. As a result, their living conditions and, for those who are employed, their working conditions are more likely to be substandard. In addition, uninsured Americans can't afford preventative medicine, and consequently a new system must devote disproportionate amount of resources to remedy conditions that have gone untreated for years. Second, cost-sharing by the currently uninsured may be impossible--again because these...
...glow of the Gulf War victory and enjoying the highest approval ratings ever recorded. That he might even stand a chance of losing the presidency seemed improbable; that he might lose to the young (just 44 at the time), virtually unknown Governor of one of the smallest and poorest states in the nation -- well, nobody would have believed it. Yet as the campaign moved into its final week, despite some tightening of the polls, that was precisely what seemed likely to happen...
Clinton and Bush propose to allow parents to choose which school their child will attend, with a lottery determining who gets to attend their favored school. The rest get assigned to the least-favored (usually the poorest) school, which then gets less money because of lower enrollment. Clinton and Bush claim this plan will provide an incentive to the school to make itself better...
...that school choice helps those who help themselves. But these are children. They can't help themselves. They rely on their parents--or what guardians they have--and we have a duty to make sure they at least get a decent education. While Clinton espouses bludgeoning the poorest schools until they improve and the vice president carps about a right to a private education, we're ignoring the fact that America's schoolchildren, often with nothing else to hope for, are depending on their right to a public...
...dynamics of the 21st century produce a gloomy outlook for the poorest countries, the most bothersome question facing much of the world is about the fate of the U.S. There is no doubt, of course, that America will be a major player on the world scene. Its military power, its 20% share of the world's gross national product and its mastery of such cutting-edge fields as biotechnology, microprocessors and information technologies guarantee that. It will bestride the North American Free Trade Agreement like a colossus...