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...plenty of company in his malpractice losses and in his zeal for reform. In 2001 medical-malpractice insurers paid out $1.53 in claims and expenses for each $1 in premiums they collected. The industry has lost a combined $8 billion since 1995, and its reserves for estimated future claims are underfunded by about $4.6 billion. So if insurers aren't profiting from higher premiums, who is? Zuk and his peers point to trial lawyers and frivolous claimants. Insurers are lobbying alongside doctors for caps on noneconomic damages (for pain and suffering), like the ones in California and 18 other states...
...zeal for self-discovery has led him on a winding, uncharted route worthy of Socrates, from the student’s desk to the teacher’s podium to that table in Union Square, with stops in Sussex and Zimbabwe along...
Sichel, Rosenberg and Watson say that like their feminist foremothers, they want to integrate their political zeal with personal lives; hence the consciousness raising...
Clearly, feminists at Harvard do not lack zeal. But choices between protest and negotiation, between outreach and internal unity, complicate the picture—not to mention having to convince their peers that they are relevant. These frustrations threaten to obscure the concrete achievements feminists have made at Harvard...
Debate would help to illuminate the PATRIOT Act’s extensive liberty-limiting provisions. Under it, the government can more easily eavesdrop and access records of American citizens. Hatch’s zeal to quietly pass this proposal as a rider reveals a disturbing eagerness to reduce civil liberties...