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While revisions to America’s healthcare system are currently being debated on the floor of Congress, four legal experts tackled the issue in a panel discussion at the Law School yesterday. The panel, entitled “When Medical Care Compromises Financial Health: Causes and Possible Solutions,” focused on the under-reported issue of insurance often not protecting against financial troubles brought on by high healthcare costs. “The rising cost of medical care in the United States is driving up premiums, and what’s been going on under premiums...
...IPCC meeting in Copenhagen to replace the ineffective 1997 Kyoto Protocol will be critical for the world’s future, and the U.S. must show initiative in helping to develop a system of short- and middle-term targets and emission reductions for all nations, including developing nations. In such a system, the massively growing nations of China and India will play a critical role. Just as the United States doomed the Kyoto Protocol by rejecting it, the non-participation of any nation in the upcoming Copenhagen talks will sap it of its significance...
...Life Suzy M. Nelson said that the University is currently in the “fluid and inexpensive” stage of drafting blueprints for the House renewal project, an undertaking that will require a complete conceptual and structural redesign of Harvard’s decades-old residential House system...
...decades, the committee has expressed a concern about the quality of education 6th-8th grade students receive in the city’s K-8 schools. Critics say that the system, which lacks a traditional 6-8 “middle school” environment, does not meet the needs of students in early adolescence...
...demoralized they were, these superrich older people that I talked to. I said to them, "How could you be demoralized? You're sitting on 5, 6, 8 billion dollars. For a billion dollars, with field organizers in every congressional district, you can get a single-payer health-care system.' What's a billion dollars to these people...