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Health Care. The alternative joins the call for insurance reform, which means eliminating the onerous "pre-existing condition" clauses insurance companies use to deny coverage. It also targets Medicare and Medicaid as the last great preserves of fee-for-service medicine. Price controls are rejected because they spawn cost shifting. The alternative would use a voucher system to move future beneficiaries into HMOs. Those seeking greater care would have to pay for it out of their own pockets...
...opposed publishing the piece unedited fought back, exhibiting appalling judgement. On the anniversary of Frug's death, they published a savage parody of her article in the "Revue" issue. No student was ever disciplined--administrators cited the First Amendment. More problematic to most observers was the environment which would spawn such insensitivity. Liberals charged that teaching methods, unchanged since the past century, were to blame...
...city of Ust-Kamenogorsk. The material had been sent to the plant in the 1970s to be made into fuel rods for Soviet naval vessels. While the Soviets had abandoned it as their union collapsed in 1991, it remained quite a prize: there was enough nuclear material there to spawn as many as 36 atom bombs...
Perhaps the movie implies that we shouldn't be pouring money into programs that spawn hoop dreams, breed hopeful young basketball players, and then destroy their confidence to the point that they lose self-respect and likely become resentful of the system that encouraged them. Certainly any program that provides an alternative to the streets is better than nothing, but ideally an inner-city youth program wouldn't rely on the lore of the American basketball star for its appeal...
Left unchecked, Pyongyang would surely expand its bomb-grade plutonium stocks and its arsenal of nukes, which may already include one or two atomic devices. That could spawn a regional arms race and, worse still, a proliferation nightmare. "The real threat, if the North is allowed to get more nuclear-weapons material, would be their selling it, not using it," says Representative Gary Ackerman, who chairs the House Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific. "Their economy is virtually nonexistent. They'll do anything for money, which is why they're the largest exporter of Scud missiles. If they...