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...self-selection of the insured population. Healthy young students generally avoid paying for insurance they will rarely use while people with chronic conditions will often never be able to find an individual plan that will be willing to take them on for a reasonable price. Even people without any serious condition often find it difficult to remain on a plan if they file too many claims in too short period of time. Consequently, tens of millions of Americans are uninsured and unprotected in the case of a medical emergency, leaving the taxpayers to pick up the burden.President Bush suggested part...
...Prefect Program. This increased commitment is partly why peer advising fellows, unlike their prefect predecessors, will be paid, Page said. According to the APO website, students will be expected to devote around 40 hours a semester to this role. “It’s a serious commitment of time, and we didn’t want that to stand in the way of any students who have jobs on campus,” Page said. But members of the Prefect Program said yesterday that they were concerned that the peer advising fellows program would still leave certain prefect...
...make “like $30 to $40 per hour with little chance of losing” in low stakes games. But Goodkin became drawn to the higher buy-in games, where there was simultaneously the challenge of playing better competitors and “the chance to make serious money...
...About 1 percent of American adults are pathological gamblers, another 2 to 3 percent have less serious but still significant problems, and as many as 15 million are “at risk,” with at least two of the symptoms described above, according to a National Council on Problem Gambling study...
...vacuum, the Democrats don't appear to be filling it. Ask a House or Senate Democratic campaign committee staffer who is the party's national face on security issues and you'll get this: Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island or Congresswoman Jane Harman of California. Reed is a serious, intellectually honest veteran and an expert on defense issues in the Senate, while Harman is an ambitious Harvard Law School graduate who is the ranking minority member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Both are credible and respected inside the Beltway, in their way. But they...