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Medicare drug plan: Stingy benefits, high cost
July 22, 2005The Bush administration’s top health officials have hit the road to educate (sell) seniors on Medicare’s complex new drug benefit. A recent stop in New Hampshire was like a road show, complete with a bus painted...
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Sit-in to save TennCare
July 22, 2005NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee health care activists have been sitting in since June 20 at the Statehouse to demand that Gov. Phil Bredesen (D) stop the threatened cut of 325,000 from the TennCare roles. Tenncare is...
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Aging population no cause for crisis
July 22, 2005Efforts to convince us that Social Security faces a crisis often start with the demographic argument: the U.S. population is aging. The White House web site says that in 1950 there were 16 active workers supporting...
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The railroad spirit and apple pie
July 22, 2005The railroad worker has his own special psychology. His sense of control over the long trains, his feeling that he occupies a strategic position in industry, his meeting with many new scenes and people daily, his...
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World Notes
July 22, 2005Afghanistan: Officials accused of war crimes Human Rights Watch issued a report July 7 pointing out that many high-level officials and advisors in Afghanistan’s current government are implicated in major war crimes and human rights abuses...
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