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That's still a trickle compared with the millions of surgeries performed each year in the $2 trillion U.S. health-care system. But a significant shift is under way. It's one that could put greater competitive pressure on U.S. hospitals as some of their most lucrative patients are siphoned off. Elective surgeries are key moneymakers for hospitals, and even a small drop-off can cut deep into their profits...
...future, six years into a Gore administration. Global warming has been reversed, with the unfortunate consequence of precipitating a "war on glaciers" as they march forth across the Canadian border. Gore excoriates the politicians who seek to take up unjustified invasions of other countries, just to get our $11 trillion budget surplus back in circulation. (Gore's self-deprecating reply: "What part of 'lockbox' don't you understand?") Americans are still fearful to travel abroad - but only because of the spontaneous mass huggings they're in for as gratitude for the country's enlightened good will...
...employed, incomes are rising and company profits are booming. Despite economic squalls in the neighborhood, and beyond, Costello could boast in his Budget speech that Australia was still expanding: "In fact, growing in the longest continuous stretch our nation has ever experienced." Soon Australia would be a $A1 trillion economy...
...billion bill. "The cost of pork in dollars amounts is not that large," says Tom Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste, "but in terms of time and energy, it takes up a lot." To achieve Coburn's goal of balancing a federal budget of more than $2 trillion - with an estimated deficit this year of more than $300 billion - would require drastic spending cuts that Coburn might support but that his colleagues would almost surely oppose even more fiercely than they have fought his campaign against earmarks. But Coburn is determined. Asked by reporters where he would take...
...likely. The fact is that U.S. weakness makes them much likelier. Moreover, Weinberger insists, military planners can no longer assume that a conventional war would last only 60 to 90 days before ending or going nuclear, but instead must prepare for conflicts of indefinite duration ... The $1.5 trillion Reagan intends to devote to the military from fiscal 1981 through '86 would be enough to pay off the entire national debt, with $300 billion left over." Read more at timearchive.com...