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...poor, Medicaid. The law was intended to be a step on the road towards providing health insurance to every American. Since 1965, America has failed to make health insurance universal. While every other industrialized nation in the world has extended health insurance to all of its citizens, America, the wealthiest nation on earth, has fallen short. More than 43 million Americans were uninsured last year, an increase of 2.4 million from the year before...
...insurance to 26.7 million people who don't have it now. The Bush campaign claims there is no way to pay for that generous plan other than by raising taxes. But Kerry has never said he would raise taxes by $900 billion. He has advocated raising taxes on the wealthiest 2% of Americans--those who make more than $200,000 a year--while giving middle-class earners tax cuts. Kerry's campaign says it is still studying how his health-care plan would be paid for, and it will release details in the coming weeks as analysts reconcile budget projections...
When Shrum advises his candidates to attack the top 1 percent, he neglects that (according to USA Today’s polls) 20 percent of Americans believe that they’re already among the wealthiest 1 percent, and 50 percent believe they will reach the highest 1 percent in their lifetimes. When Shrum advises his candidates to condemn corporations, he ignores that (according to the Survey of Consumer Finances) nearly half of all Americans own some form of stock—and want American companies to succeed. And when Shrum advises his candidates to call President Bush a tool...
...eggs are going home, bringing to 19 the number known to be in Russian hands. Eight are unaccounted for, and the rest reside in museums and private collections around the world. The purchaser, Vekselberg, who ranked No. 147 on Forbes magazine's list of the world's wealthiest people last year, has said he will put the eggs on public exhibition. Museums across Russia are vying to be chosen as the home for the collection...
...company that is not entirely beholden to analysts. Because of a complex arrangement, just over half of L'Oreal's stock is controlled through a holding company that includes Nestle and Liliane Bettencourt, Eugene Schueller's only child and--thanks to her L'Oreal stake--one of the wealthiest people in Europe...