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...mildly encouraging sign is that a growing number of legislators seem to recognize that, just as the crisis has no single cause, it cannot have any single solution. They are proposing various combinations of tighter insurance regulation and tort reform. A bill on the verge of enactment by the Minnesota legislature would set up "joint underwriting associations" to issue liability policies, written by the state, to customers who could not get commercial insurance; any losses would be picked up jointly by the state's insurers. But to limit those losses, the bill also would restrict punitive damages, among other tort...
...brash and full of unabashedly liberal ideas, Toney Anaya was considered one of the Democratic Party's brightest lights in 1982 after he won the Governor's seat by a landslide in conservative New Mexico. Anaya, now 44, immediately presented the legislature with sweeping plans for educational innovations, prison reform and economic development geared to high-tech industries. As the nation's only Hispanic Governor, he spoke out frequently on minority issues, and was known to entertain dreams of someday winning a Cabinet position, perhaps even the vice presidency. "My political options in New Mexico are limited," said Anaya less...
...another development, Stephen Cardinal Kim Sou Hwan, the Roman Catholic primate of South Korea, last week endorsed the calls for reform. The Philippine Catholic Church played an important role in toppling Marcos. "There are no reasons why the revisions should be delayed," said Cardinal Kim. "We have to bring democracy to Korea urgently." Added Dissident Kim Young Sam, an N.K.D.P. adviser: "To delay democratization is to deny...
...problem began three years ago, after a major reform of Medicare. Under its earlier provisions, the plan, which covers the health-care costs of citizens who are over age 65 or disabled, paid for all "reasonable" hospital expenses. By the late '70s, however, this blank-check approach had led to a dizzying 17% annual increase in Medicare's hospitalization costs and warnings that the system would be bankrupt...
...Medicare watchdog agencies responsible for supervising such arrangements. A report to be released later this month by Harvard's Center for Health Policy and Management proposes a more radical solution: revising the Medicare system so it pays for extended nursing-home stays, home care and other outpatient care. Such reform, which could cost $50 billion a year, seems unlikely to win congressional favor in an era of cost cutting. But until something is done to meet the needs of patients evicted from their hospital beds, large numbers will continue to fall into the perilous no care zone. --By Claudia Wallis...