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...purest form, managed competition would replace Medicare with a voucher good for the purchase of the health insurance of your choice. The government would lightly supervise the available choices. You could choose an HMO, a PPO, traditional fee-for-service medicine or whatever. If your choice cost more than the value of the voucher, you would pay the difference. If it cost less, you might get a rebate. Competition to sign you up is supposed to restrain prices and guarantee quality. The health-care system for federal employees works roughly like this, and it works well. Last year premiums actually...
...replacement baseball was baseball at its purest. A game without egos and without million dollar salaries...
Rwanda is the kind of place that takes away all faith in humanity, all hope that the world is making progress toward some higher plane. This year, the world gasped as genocide in its purest form raged through the country. First, the Hutu-dominated government unleashed a frenzy of killing against the minority Tutsis. Then, when the Tutsis launched a rebellion and seized the country, thousands of Hutus fled in fear to border camps. There, thousands more died from cholera and dysentery. By the time the worst had ended, as many as half a million people had died...
...that experts said it probably came from a top-of-the-line Russian nuclear laboratory. Senior officials in Moscow reacted defensively, insisting that all their plutonium was accounted for and safely under guard. The accusation from Germany, blustered Deputy Atomic Energy Minister Yevgeni Mikenin, "is a provocation of the purest water...
...them do so for the most venal, usually pecuniary, motives. They really do believe theirs is the politics of virtue. Hillary Clinton spent so much time championing the politics of virtue that she earned a cover photograph in the New York Times Magazine last year showing her dressed in purest white, with the accompanying article headlined SAINT HILLARY...