Word: ruralism
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...pass under the stainless steel bridge and glance into the reflection-coated windows, and wonder if the security guards behind the bulletproof glass will pick me out as a threatening figure and detain me for further questioning. Since 9-11, nothing is as straightforward for travelers. Even in rural Vermont, the very architecture of the patrol station is there to tell Americans that constant vigilance is the only way to prevent another tragedy. Yet the Canadians, by comparison, have not been terrorized by terror...
...terror with rapt attention, they have other, more immediate concerns. In Mansonville, the summer’s top stories are that hardware store owner’s son, Paul, died in a bike accident and that the butcher, Hamelin, has to have surgery again. Unlike Americans, the citizens of rural Quebec do not feel persecuted by crime and terrorism. They live quiet lives for the most part, and don’t find it necessary to rebuild their border stations with reinforced steel. I turn off the main road and descend even further into the wilderness, relieved to know...
...controlling their charging. "I forewarn the Labor Party," says A.M.A. president Bill Glasson, "not to pursue this fever about bulk billing." It may result, doctors say, in many G.P.s either leaving the workforce or congregating in areas where more people are prepared to pay to see a doctor. The Rural Doctors Association says medicos in remote areas are doing it particularly hard: as well as bearing higher costs than their city counterparts, they're doing the work of specialists in return for G.P. rebates...
...care to patients earning up to 200% of the federal poverty guidelines. Provena has broadened its charity-care eligibility, and the AHA has been urging its 4,700 member hospitals to sign new charity and billing guidelines. Scruggs has already notched one victory. In Mississippi, the nation's largest rural hospital system settled with him last month, agreeing to provide an estimated $270 million in debt relief and discounts for patients, even though it wasn't sued. Scruggs calls the deal with North Mississippi Health Services a model, and says he would drop his challenges to hospitals that agree...
...fetes German diplomats at the White House and establishes the chillingly plausible Office of American Absorption, a government agency aimed at "encouraging America's religious and national minorities to become further incorporated into the larger society"--in other words, forcibly breaking up Jewish communities and dispersing their members to rural backwaters per the novel's Homestead Act of 1942. Roth's delivery is so matter-of-fact, so documentary deadpan that when we're 10 pages into the book our own world starts to seem like a flimsy fantasy...