Word: unfairly
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...finance half the cost of the health care it provides. But now it covers less than a third. Raising the premium, at least for better-off beneficiaries, seems fair enough. The seniors lobby is geared up to label any such change a "tax increase on the elderly," which is unfair, since it is actually a reduction in the subsidy they are receiving. (It is fitting revenge, though, on the conservatives who now propose it, since they have been quick to label many a similar subsidy reduction as a "tax increase" in the past...
...late to argue that it would be unfair to "railroad" Medicare patients into managed care against their will. Most of us are already in managed care, and few of us had any choice about it: our employers put us there. Managed care can be excellent or terrible--it can achieve its savings by efficiency or by skimping on quality--but for almost everybody it is inevitable. The only question is how we get there...
McVeigh: No, unless the trial is held a year from now and there are no unfair leaks from the government in between...
...gaffe can cost you an election--and often have," Jacoby said to the group of 30. "Gaffe journalism is often good journalism, and it is often unfair journalism. My take is that it's justified to pay attention to the gaffe, but we [the media] are too hasty about letting that become the story...
Most importantly, preferential treatment for organ donors is unfair to those morally opposed to organ donation. Their thoughts must be taken into account as well. Hospital cannot treat them with any less respect by denying certain services provided to the families of organ donors. Non-monetary compensation also tarnishes the image of organ donation--organ donors make a gift to society; society does not have a right to those organs. By marring the public's view of organ donation, we may see a decrease in potential donors. We cannot ignore the individual's rights in trying to provide...