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...misunderstood aspect of the exchange proposals is the "essential health benefit package." Health-reform critics have been using this legislative provision to scare people into thinking that the government will decide what services are covered under private insurance. But what the government would actually be doing is setting a standard for a minimum benefit package that all health-insurance plans would have to meet. The purpose of this is not to ration health care but rather to ensure that Americans don't buy plans with hidden loopholes and gaps. The House plan says this minimum benefit must cover at least...
...osteoporosis - postmenopausal women and men being treated for prostate cancer - according to two major studies published online on Aug. 11 by the New England Journal of Medicine. The new compound, denosumab, is being reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration. If approved, it has the potential to become a standard treatment for certain patients...
...tomatoes, olives and mushrooms in brine, tabule, baby corn, tortellini, a variety of meats. A dessert section complete with sliced peaches from the can, grapefruit wedges, fresh fruit salad (at dinner!), a humongous tub of Richardson’s chocolate ice cream (which Kenny said was nearly a nightly standard). He added that, for a while, the dining hall boasted strawberry and blueberry smoothies. As he spoke, Kenny was drinking Dudley House coffee—also known as Starbucks Sumatra, Extra Bold (he said it was—extra bold, that is). Apparently the salad dressing is also a crowd...
...China because Deng Xiaoping said it should. As Rana Mitter of Oxford University argues, there had been modernizing streams in Chinese society long before 1978, and had some of them taken a different course, our view of what China represents for the future would be unrecognizable from the standard text. (Just imagine what we would think if China had become a constitutional monarchy in the late Qing period. Impossible? Japan managed...
They began making out. Standard...