my mind in this election on most economic questions. To judge by their recent presidential questionnaire, our bishops imply that the minimum wage, farm policy, low-cost housing, and other such...
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Go, Packers, go! I thoroughly enjoyed John Savant's "The Saving Grace of Sport" (September 26). I just left Green Bay, Wisconsin (home of the Packers), because of a job change. In "Cheesehead,"...
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Thomas Higgins THE 'GOVINATOR' Report from California 0ssessing the long-term implications for American politics of California's recall election is not without risk. Conventional wisdom got...
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Thomas Higgins STATE OF EMERGENCY California's health-care crisis The words "health care" and "crisis" follow each other in sentences so often that we have grown numb to the association....
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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Bob Lax, friend I was delighted to come upon the April 19 issue and all that it contained about my old pal Bob Lax. Compliments to James Uebbing. Bob Lax and I have...
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POWER TO THE PATIENTS WHY ALLIANCES MATTER resident Bill Clinton's Health Security Act has had its first congressional committee vote, and already health alliances, a key feature of the...
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HEALTH-CARE REFORM RATIONING IN OREGON NOT THIS WAY n August 3, when the Bush administration rejected Oregon's request for a waiver to change the state's medicaid program in order to implement a...
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TAKING OUR MEDICINE WHAT KIND OF LIFE The Limits of Medical Progress Daniel Callahan Simon & Schuster, $19.95, 318 pp. Thomas Higgins The health-care system in America could, with moral...
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AN ALTERNATIVE TO DR. REAGAN'S HEALTH POLICY Time for a second opinion THOMAS HIGGINS NOWHERE IN America is the Reagan administration's policy of indifference toward the health care needs of the...
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