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...Anthem Blue Cross story in California is far from unique. According to the Associated Press, Maine, Oregon and Kansas are among states where consumers buying individual policies on the open market may see double-digit rate increases in 2010. Sandy Praeger, the Kansas insurance commissioner and head of the managed-care committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, said she agrees with others that Anthem Blue Cross is probably operating within the law in proposing its California rate hikes. "I thought the explanation made perfect sense," says Praeger. "In this job climate, if people are young and healthy, they...
...What's the alternative? The Federal Government could enforce the new national rules, but this would require creating a sizable new regulatory bureaucracy, even though one already exists at the state level. The states don't want that to happen. If the federal bureaucrats assumed regulatory control, says Sandy Praeger, Kansas' insurance commissioner and chair of the health insurance and managed care committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, "we'd just be left to mop up the mess. We wouldn't have any authority, but we'd just deal with all the consumer complaints. That...
Near midnight, the last guests leave, and Bob Praeger, a friend visiting from California, turns to White. "Ed, you were fabulous! Those stories you told, my God! I just can't believe there wasn't someone at the table with pencil and paper taking it all down." Bob is in Providence tracking down a letter for a book he is writing on General George Custer. One story leads to another; one letter leads to 300 others. It seems that Bob has all these letters, which he wants to sell, from a "male writer who," he explains, "has signed every...
...Joan Dauria, agreed that a day-care facility at Time Inc.'s Rockefeller Center headquarters was impossible. "Commuting in New York is difficult at best, but especially when you have an infant or young child," explains Rose, co-author of the book The Employer's Guide to Child Care (Praeger). "And we have people who work unusual schedules, including weekends and nights." Adds Dauria: "We needed to be more flexible, letting parents make their own choice." The trio looked for a firm that would provide information for parental decision making as well as handle emergency requests outside work hours...
...chips are used to compose music, draw Op artistic pictures and write poems. They will never be Marvells or undo Donne?but they are trying. Poet-Novelist Carol Spearin Mc-Cauley notes in her book Computers and Creativity (Praeger) that the well-programmed computer is freed from "the confines of English grammar, syntax and common usage ... The machine's lack of shame, so to speak, frees it to express many things that a writer, by habit used to excluding or censoring the ungrammatical, awkward or ambiguous, would not consider." Marie Boroff, an English professor at Yale, acted as muse...