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...Most health-care providers rarely turn away patients in need of medical care. This is particularly true of hospitals, whose emergency rooms are mandated by federal law to provide treatment regardless of a person's ability to pay. That leads to millions of dollars in unpaid medical bills each year. Thus, when providers negotiate contracts with HMOs, for instance, they try to recoup some of those losses by raising prices for insured patients, which in turn leads to higher premiums. Because insurance markets are state-by-state entities with disparate regulations, residents of certain states - such as Montana, West Virginia...
...classroom technique for ADHD kids: Don't overly tax their working memory. Rapport, who used to be a school psychologist, says the average teacher doesn't understand how ADHD kids process information. "If you go into a typical classroom," he told me, "you might hear, 'Take out the book. Turn to page 23. Do items 1 through 8, but don't do 5.' And you've just given them four or five directions. The child with working-memory problems has dropped three of them, and so he's like, 'Page 23 - what I am supposed to do?' " Similarly, a parent...
...plays add up.”The Crimson will have to overcome this disappointing loss as it looks forward to Friday’s matchup against Presbyterian.“We’re going to have to let go of our disappointment, and take all that disappointment and turn it into motivation to try to win the next game,” Tillman said. “Bad things will happen—it’s what you do next.”—Staff writer Alexandra J. Mihalek can be reached at amihalek@fas.harvard.edu...
...Many advocates and academics argue that juveniles are not being given enough of a chance to turn their lives around after committing minor offenses. And officials at both the state and federal levels seem to be getting the message. Last summer, after reviewing a large swath of research literature, the Department of Justice concluded that "to best achieve reduction in recidivism, the overall number of juvenile offenders transferred to the criminal-justice system should be minimized." That came three years after the U.S. stopped executing minors, following a Supreme Court decision, Roper v. Simmons, that was largely based...
...quickly, in a live televised address on Saturday that offered the most detailed response yet from Iran's leader to a series of rhetorical gestures from the new U.S. Administration. The essence of Khamenei's answer was that it would take more than "changes in words" from Washington to turn a new page in the relationship...