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...that serves 27 million Americans, including half of all nursing-home patients. The plan would also hike Medicare premiums for the wealthy, an idea that is certain to provoke protests. In 1988, the last time Congress attempted to make upper-income retirees pay more, a revolt among seniors forced repeal of the catastrophic-care law the following year. Fear of a similar backlash led Bush advisers to drop the idea of reducing tax deductions for company-paid health insurance, a subsidy expected to cost $43 billion this year. Administrators of teaching hospitals, often the care providers of last resort...
...uninsured state residents. Under the Dukakis program, companies were compelled to contribute to a state fund for each uninsured worker. But the plan soon ran into resistance from business leaders, who said the levy was cutting into profits. Current Massachusetts Governor William Weld has promised to repeal the program...
...resolution was devised in 1975 by the U.S.S.R. to win Arab fealty against the U.S. in the superpower struggle for dominance in the Middle East. But the end of the cold war and the eruption of the gulf war dramatically altered U.N. dynamics, and President Bush began lobbying for repeal. Washington also hoped that erasing the resolution would encourage Israeli reasonableness as Middle East peace talks got under...
...votes were cast mostly by Arab and Muslim states plus the communist countries of Cuba, North Korea and Vietnam. An Arab spokesman argued that repeal would only "whet the appetite of Israeli extremists' creeping annexation," and Saudi Arabia's U.N. Ambassador, Samir Shihabi, boycotted the session. Biggest winner: the U.N., freed of an albatross...
...United Nations, in voting overwhelmingly December 16 to repeal Resolution 3379, which equated Zionism with racism, has finally come to understand that the insult to the Jewish people it represented undermined the United Nations' ability to play a constructive role in the world. It is too bad that some members of the Harvard community have not yet come to the same realization...