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...physicians and preventive medicine, the percentage of ahcccs patients since 1989 who receive most of their treatment in emergency rooms has dropped from 18% to 8%, while those seeing regular doctors has jumped from 18% to 36%. Says John Murphy, executive director of the Flinn Foundation, a Phoenix think tank that studies health care: "If what you're trying to do is provide high-quality care to the poorest of the poor for a low price to the state, this system is a success...
...poor would shrivel, and groups such as CityTeam would "replicate" by the thousands across America. They would do so on a tremendous wave of charitable giving that some conservatives appear to believe will occur almost spontaneously in response to the cutbacks. Leslie Lenkowsky, head of the Hudson Institute think tank, notes a bump in giving during the budget-cutting Reagan years and suggests that "with a return to the economic and tax climate of the 1980s...a repeat performance is not inconceivable...
...revolutionary but an incrementalist, and the Republican budget is just Tax-and-Spend Lite. His flat tax is also an enormous tax cut that he concedes will raise $40 billion less in revenue than the tax system does now; the group Citizens for Tax Justice, a generally liberal think tank, estimates a 17% flat tax would produce a shortfall of $200 billion. And never mind turning matters back to the states: Forbes is one of the few Republicans nervy enough to question the idea of devolution. Instead, he wants everything turned over to a still more sovereign entity, the individual...
...ARTICLE ON HUFFINGTON REFERRED to a Washington think tank as Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's Progress & Freedom Foundation. Although the Speaker is associated with this organization, he is not a board member, officer or employee of the foundation, nor does he own or control...
Arafat: Oh, I can't give you his name. But I have No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, No. 5. I am not here with a tank and a coup d'etat. I have been elected in the Palestine National Council. [If something happens], they will call an urgent meeting of the P.N.C. and elect another...