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...decades the private insurers have fanned the crisis by blithely reimbursing the fees of greedy practitioners and expansionary hospitals. Then, as costs rise, the private insurers seek to shed the poorest and the sickest customers, who get priced out or summarily dropped. For some companies, a serious and costly illness is a good enough reason to cancel a policy. Others refuse to insure anybody who might be gay and hence, actuarially speaking, might get AIDS...
...Enforcement Administration special agent, the smugglers don't seem to know. Starr, along with two neighboring mesquite-covered counties along the Mexican border, has become known as Little Colombia because of high-profile drug smuggling since the federal crackdown in Florida. Officially designated as one of the nation's poorest regions, the area is basking in a cocaine-driven economic boom that has helped fuel a surge in bank deposits. Lavish homes -- paid for in cash -- have been built fronting the Rio Grande, and luxury cars equipped with cellular telephones dot the unpaved streets of such towns as Roma...
...poor. I look to people like the Epiphany Plowshares, a group of laypersons and clergy who were imprisoned for breaking into a missile assembly plant in Pennsylvania during an anti-war protest. Or a person like Mother Theresa of Calcutta, who devoted her life to helping the poorest of the poor in India, regardless of race, religion or creed...
...largely to federal largesse. The problem is that spending on the elderly has become indiscriminate. Unlike most programs targeted at the young, which are open only to the poor, virtually none of the spending on the old is similarly means-tested. It goes equally to millionaires and to the poorest widow. Yet while only 5% of the elderly have incomes below the official poverty level of $5,947 for a single person and $7,501 for a couple, 1 child in 5 lives in poverty. Even some senior citizens' groups have started paying lip service to the need to trim...
...sense, both sides are right. Divestment has forced the government to change--but further divestment will be at the expense of the poorest working class South Africans...