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Whether the Congress cuts Medicaid or Medicare, the fundamental problem of health care privatization will remain. Health care and health insurance are not goods like apples or oranges; their distribution and trading greatly influences many sectors of the economy. Letting the health market run wild could give rise to deeper problems, such as a movement in medical research to lower-cost treatments rather than new and better alternatives. When the agents in the market are driven solely by profit, the overall quality of care is usually reduced. Complete privatization could also cause an arms race in technology, as managed care...
...appalled by the rise of sexually transmitted disease, by the wave of teenage pregnancies, by violent crime. Yet we drench ourselves in depictions of explicit sex and crime on television, in movies and in pop music. Language that I heard--and used--only on all-male Army posts is now scripted into the mouths of women, even children...
...hardly elm trees and picket fences. We kept our doors and windows locked. I remember a steel rod running from the back of our front door to a brace on the floor so that no one could push in the door. Burglaries were common. Drug use was on the rise. Yet crime and violence in those days did not begin to suggest the social breakdown depicted in Fort Apache. That was yet to come...
...experienced before. And I have to give very, very serious thought about whether we should do that to the family. And the second point I always have to make is that when I look at the other candidates who are out there, they have had a lifelong ambition to rise in politics; they have been doing it all their lives. And to them the Holy Grail is the presidency. That has not been my driving ambition. Even though I've been called a political soldier, I am fundamentally a soldier. I have repeatedly turned down offers for appointive office...
...postponed a final vote on welfare reform until next week. With the compromise on the child care issued reached, Karen Tumulty notes, the bill should pass easily. Late Thursday night, Majority Leader Bob Dole reached a compromise with Minority Leader Tom Daschle under which child care funding will rise by $3 billion over five years to $8 billion...