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...uninsured as well. The moral imperative of improving their health care is what drives the passion of most liberal activists for reform. But when you read the liberal policy analysts, it quickly becomes clear that getting young and healthy people to pay more in premiums than they will spend on medical expenses is the point of forcing them to buy insurance. Which is it? In aggregate, are we trying to rescue the uninsured or bilk them? Is reform something we are doing for them or to them? (See 10 players in health care reform...
These cash-for-clunkers efforts appear to be working well as an economic stimulus, although they've lost some of their environmental benefit. Research has shown that the greenest (and most equitable) plans target the oldest gas guzzlers and allow consumers to spend the money however they want...
...when they're not legislating? Any time not spent on the Hill can be spent fundraising, although outside of election years, August is a slow month for events. Some members go on official trips, visiting troops or joining fact-finding missions or trade delegations. This year several lawmakers will spend their time stumping for (or against) President Obama's health-care plan. Once that's all done, though, many take actual vacations: Arizona Representative Raul Grijalva plans to spend four days in a cabin near the Grand Canyon. There he will "read a book that is pointless and have...
...weak and she is alone in the world--that no one is so dismissive about her sorrow and despair. To assert that "advances in palliative care mean that those last years of life do not have to be a moral, medical and financial nightmare" suggests that Gibbs doesn't spend much time visiting friends in nursing homes. I would advise her to seek some wisdom there. G. Sue Eiler, WEST LAFAYETTE...
What is solvable is the matter of Julia's boredom. Paul and she can't spend every waking minute together in a bistro, sharing divine sole meunière. "What should I do?" she asks him, just one of many moments when Streep's channeling of Child's speech patterns caused me to yelp with pleasure. She ends up at Le Cordon Bleu cooking school and discovers, triumphantly, that she has talent for it. She's also very pleased to defy the expectations of the Cordon Bleu's snooty director (Joan Juliet Buck), who didn't believe an American housewife stood...