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...Serial short-term policies. Each successive policy you purchase treats you as a new beneficiary, so changes in your health may later be considered a pre-existing condition...
...Temporary or short-term policies. Buying into these plans may disqualify you from comprehensive long-term coverage later, especially if you have a pre-existing condition...
...respect, the senator should know better. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, perhaps the best-known protectionist law in history, erected tariff barriers for over 20,000 products after the Wall Street crash in 1929. It may have gotten the lawmakers that passed it reelected, given the short-term boost in domestic demand, but it was a cataclysmic event for the global economy in the medium and long run: Countries soon became entangled in a protectionist race and subsequent trade war that caused American foreign trade (imports and exports) to almost halve. According to Milton Friedman, it created...
...Both the UK and Germany are due national elections in the next year or so, and leaders are astutely aware of the demands of their public. Nevertheless, politicians must do their utmost to explain the imperative need for an Eastern European bailout to their constituents. There will undeniably be short-term costs, but the long-term security that this plan ensures is in Europe’s best interest...
...TIME: What is the state of the peace process as Clinton arrives in the Middle East? Telhami: The big picture, whether or not we have short-term violence on the Israeli-Gaza front, is that the time is running out on the two-state solution. Now we have Gaza and the West Bank separated politically between Fatah and Hamas, as well as geographically. We have settlements expanding in the West Bank and around Jerusalem. Israeli-built roads and other infrastructure are transforming the reality on the ground. (See pictures of Gaza after the three-week...