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...noble-sounding legislation known as the patients' bill of rights, which does nothing to help the uninsured and could actually make costs rise even more. Bush and Senator Edward Kennedy have quietly reopened negotiations on the question of whether and how patients should be allowed to sue their managed-care companies. But while the HMO-reform measure was a crowd pleaser when the idea started kicking around five years ago, it is merely a "version of the Maginot Line" against the health-care problems facing the country, says Steven Schroeder, president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which leads...
...Back at CASA, officials acknowledged late Tuesday they did not follow accepted statistical sampling procedures. The real number, the organization admits, is probably closer to 11 percent. Sue Foster, vice president and director of policy research, defended CASA's methods Tuesday afternoon, saying, "We stand by the 25 percent figure as an estimate, and in the report we laid out very clearly in the report how we arrived at that number." Foster admits that while the numbers culled from the survey were lower than the figures published in the official report, researchers assumed they had to correct the initial numbers...
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has threatened to sue Deren and has complained to President Bush. In September, Thai rice farmers marched on the U.S. embassy in Bangkok. Deren even received an e-mail that he says "felt threatening" from an organization urging protest against his research. (It included his home address and phone number.) American companies are already expressing interest in commercializing Deren's strain. And RiceTec sells its own brand, called Jasmati...
...Takaharu Sue, a 30-year-old office manager in Tokyo, owns the latest 2G phone from DoCoMo and has no plans to upgrade. "At this point," he asks, "what's the point?" Only 42,000 FOMA handsets have been sold?far fewer than the 150,000 the company had modestly projected to move by March. While the company is publicly sticking to its forecasts, Tachikawa recently admitted that 3G uptake "is lower than we expected...
...Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has threatened to sue Deren and has complained to President Bush. In September, Thai rice farmers marched on the U.S. embassy in Bangkok. Deren even received an e-mail that he says "felt threatening" from an organization urging protest against his research. (It included his home address and phone number.) American companies are already expressing interest in commercializing Deren's strain. And RiceTec sells its own brand, called Jasmati...