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When it comes to health care, government could be the only source of an equitable solution that ensures a tolerable standard of care. A government-run system also has the advantage of keeping all administration under one roof. But let's remember who owns that roof these days; they're not the most hospitable hosts, especially for social programs...
...neither the government nor private insurers put up much resistance to rising prices. By now, though, the private sector has wised up. Almost two-thirds of privately insured Americans are under so-called managed care: 20% in health-maintenance organizations, which provide all or most medical services under one roof, and 44% in preferred-provider organizations, which negotiate prices in advance with certain doctors and hospitals. Although adherents fiercely debate their relative merits, the principle of HMOS and PPOS is the same: controlling costs by having the insurer "manage"--that is, limit--the consumer's choices...
...million annual budget, officials are hard pressed to maintain essential park services, let alone improve and expand them. Primitive water and sewer lines regularly rupture. Twisted, aging roads are dangerous and confusing. The visitors' center is cramped, overrun and hard to find. Its exhibits are outdated and the roof leaks. Employee housing is so critically short that some government workers are living in the medical clinic and an old laundry. Others are billeted in rickety trailers that were hauled to the site from nearby Glen Canyon Dam, where they housed the dam's construction crew 33 years...
...primarily working on the roof and themasonry's gutter line, with some exterior wallrepair," Lichten said...
...point, union representatives readsuggestions, both humorous and serious, includingcombining the Gazette and the Resource into onemagazine, placing solar panels on the roof of theScience Center, stopping the reorganization of OITand renting out administrators' offices inMassachusetts Hall for weddings and parties...