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Miller points to the state's new standardized testing system, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), as one factor that leads parents to favor private schools...
...From the State House to the White House: Issues for the Year 2000 and Beyond" will focus on the many open races around the country next year...
Harvard's Director of Federal and State Relations Kevin Casey said that Harvard's lobbyists have been emphasizing the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach to science...
HMOs are bundling up for what could be a long, cold winter. On Monday, California?s Governor Gray Davis made his the third state to allow patients to sue their managed care plans for failing to provide adequate care. Along with legislation recently enacted in Georgia and Texas, California?s new law wrenches much medical decision-making from the grip of HMOs and hands it back to the patients and their doctors. In most states, HMOs are protected from liability in cases where treatment is withheld or delayed in the interest of economy ?- although if congressional Democrats...
...These state laws, and the surrounding controversies, run parallel to the national debate on health care: Next week, when the House of Representatives opens what promises to be a heated debate on managed care and the scope of patients? rights, watch for newly disenfranchised physicians to join forces with powerful ?- and unlikely ?- political allies. The Wall Street Journal reports that many physicians, fed up with their corroding autonomy, are turning away from their Republican roots and appealing to a new group of allies: liberal Democrats. While politics and medicine have coexisted since the dawn of modern insurance policies, the stranglehold...