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...reduce funding or deny coverage for certain medical technologies or procedures, patients would have to forgo their use or pay for it out of pocket. Under the current system, if people are dissatisfied with their plan, they can simply switch insurance carriers. No one denies the moral imperative for reform to provide health-care access to all Americans, but a single-payer system is not the answer. Janet Trautwein, CEO, National Association of Health Underwriters, Arlington, Virginia...
...January’s end, with the official inauguration still a week away, the pursuit of textbook price reform was already well underway—and under fire. A group of UC representatives, dispatched to the Harvard Coop to collect ISBN information for the database of a UC-endorsed, student-run book-savings Web site, were forced to leave by store employees...
...Ryan and his colleagues have presented the case for calendar reform in a most thoughtful and reasonable manner without threatening demonstrations, building take-overs or other pressure tactics of the kind I experienced in the early 1970s,” Bok said in an e-mailed statement. “All my encounters with them have been entirely civil and constructive...
...Smith, who will take over as dean in July, says teaching reform will be one of his priorities. “We need to sit down and seriously consider all of the recommendations that are in that report...
Interim University President Derek C. Bok announced today that Harvard’s governing boards had approved his recommendation to create a reformed, University-wide calendar.The new calendar configuration will be modeled on a proposal—initially advanced by a 2003–2004 committee chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53—to begin classes shortly after Labor Day, to move fall exams before winter break, and to end the academic year in May.Implementation of the changes is set for the 2009-2010 academic year, to give Harvard’s 11 schools...