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Acting Cambridge Police Commissioner Walter Boyle was buried in a funeral ceremony earlier this month after suffering a fatal heart attack on February 3, according to a report in the Cambridge TAB...
...fraternization with a known lobbyist. The House guidelines mix lawyerly analysis with primer language the most ethically challenged can understand, employing kindergarten names such as Moe Member, Larry Lobbyist and Stella Staffer to make their points. (Example: Carla Congresswoman lunches periodically with Edna Executive. Edna always picks up the tab. Aside from these lunches, the two never socialize. Although they have known each other for years, theirs is not a "personal friendship.") Of course, this being Washington, Edna may become godmother to Carla's first born, but never mind. The guidelines do permit "nominal gifts" from nonfriends...
...offerings Miraval, a holistic health spa along the lines of the nearby tony Canyon Ranch. Some of those who still visit Sierra Tucson to cope with addictions do much of their therapy in short, intensive workshops. And more than three-quarters of them now pay the $650-a-night tab out of their own pockets...
HMOs arose and have flourished in the U.S. largely in response to the runaway medical costs engendered under the fee-for-service approach, in which doctors have an interest in doing everything their patients might require, and possibly more than that, provided an insurer is paying the tab. But Himmelstein and other physicians believe the bottom-line philosophy of for-profit HMOs has pushed the pendulum too far in the opposite direction...
Commonly thought of as health care for the poor, Medicaid is actually several programs in one. It provides basic health coverage for 26 million poor children and adults, but they account for just a quarter of the program's $156 billion annual tab. The big costs come from providing long-term care for 10 million elderly and disabled Americans. All told, Medicaid covers 1 in 4 American children, pays for 1 in 3 births, and finances more than half the nursing-home care in the country. For the time being, Medicaid is also an "entitlement," like Social Security and Medicare...