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City Councillor Henrietta J. Davis said that the complexity and number of the city’s bills impeded energy efficiency efforts before 2006, when Cambridge first adopted the system...
...percent of people in the 18-24 age group are uninsured, the highest of any group. There needs to be a voice telling students that the current healthcare bill in Congress will have a direct effect on our lives from the day we graduate until retirement. The healthcare system that has been handed down since World War II is certainly broken in many ways, but the current “reform” plans need to be fully examined for their impact on the younger generations...
...mandate system would also be unlikely to reduce costs in the healthcare bureaucracy. In fact, the mandate has been shown to sharply increase the number of payers in the system, which artificially drives up demand and prices, as seen by the rising individual costs of Massachusetts healthcare under the state’s current universal plan. Since that reform passed, health insurers have raised premiums between 7-12 percent, greater than the national average of 5-7 percent increases. This makes Massachusetts the state with the highest average family healthcare plans, $13,788 per year, despite the carefully crafted reform...
That's where the trial - and the federal rules of evidence that govern it - comes in. "This case clearly presents a clash of worldviews," Spindelman says. "But the legal system can't just pick sides between them; it couldn't and still be a decision consistent with the rule of law. There must be reasons for whatever conclusion the trial court reaches and facts supporting them...
...some of the plaintiffs' testimony was to reveal the hurt most of us usually don't express, which supports the legal claim that there is an injury of sufficient magnitude to warrant a remedy. And other testimony was to show that the supposed reasons for reimposing a caste system are a mixture of baseless nonsense and deliberate lies. All of it relates to elements of the legal tests...