LETTERS
LETTERS Start Me Up Mr. Schlosberg's identification of risk capital acquisition as the biggest problem for small businesses is right on target ["The Start-Up Blues," January]. The problem is...
...In response to the nursing shortage, a committee of physicians from the AMA House of Delegates has decided to create a new category of health care worker who would in fact practice nursing but whose training and supervision would come from physicians...
...LIN BASSETT SCHAYE Chicago, Illinois I can assure you from my own experience that this is not the first time that nurses object to a new group of paramedics to be created...
...Surprised and shocked because in my ten years as a Shriner and my eight years of work at the International Shriners Hospitals' Headquarters, I have been continually impressed—no, amazed—at the commitment and dedication of the physicians, nurses, and therapists at all Shriners Hospitals to do "whatever it takes" to help their young patients overcome their disabilities...
...The screaming and hollering of the registered nurses (over my dead body...
...There are thousands of "capital assets," including paintings, antique cars, and vacation homes...
...Your superficial analysis surprises me...
...I note that National Review's editors headlined the piece "Congress's Red Army," adorning that title with a Soviet flag...
...These are precisely the type of high-risk, long-term investments we need if America is to compete in international markets...
...WICK ALLISON New York, New York Mr...
...Burkholder was trying mightily—huffing and puffing as he went along—to prove his case by exaggerating Mr...
...The SBA does some of this but, as you have noted, is often closer to the process of lending than necessary...
...A nostalgia on the part of some physicians for the good old days when nurses were hospital-trained by MDs (and not so uppity), has spawned this hare-brained scheme...
...were set up to make them bankable by pooling the risks of a lot of loans and taking the risk off the bank's hands...
...The surgeons noticed that after my eight-hour shift was over I kept hanging around the OR watching surgery...
...An article "supported in part by a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism" should show more care in throwing around words...
...Michelin Men Daniel Farber's review of Richard Neely's book ["You Little Tort," January] overlooked the most important reason for America's wasteful and destructive product liability law: our lack of national health insurance...
...Start-up firms are starved for capital, and when they starve, we will all feel the hunger pangs in time...
...In those relatively few injury cases genuinely caused by unsafe products, the government should have the right to sue the manufacturer for reimbursement of medical treatment expenses...
...As one of them told me: We have nothing against you personally, but we don't want technicians, period...
...These investments are risky because start-up firms do fail, and in many cases there is no possibility for any return while the firm is getting off the ground...
...I've a strong hunch it will be the same for the RCT's if they don't give up...
...HUGO S. CUNNINGHAM Omaha, Nebraska Turf Wars Let me suggest that you investigate further the nature of the nursing-RCT controversy ["Tilting at Windmills," January...
...When I immigrated to the United States in 1950, I got myself a job as orderly in the operating room in Hackensack, New Jersey...
...Most of the patients leave our hospitals believing that there isn't anything they can't do...
...Animosity between medicine and nursing is approaching an all-time high...
...I feel his assessment was neither fair, nor accurate...
...Waller's...
...His sweeping and ill-considered campaign promise to cut capital gains tax rates will make it even harder for startup firms to obtain the capital they need to survive and prosper...
...It is clearly a "turf" issue...
...Of course, it suited Mr...
...He's something much worse: he actually believes in that stuff...
...WILLIAM A. PRICE Wheaton, Illinois President Bush should read "The Start-Up Blues" before he submits his capital gains tax proposal to the Congress...
...George Crockett, whose long public history of communist fellowtraveling we recounted in some detail...
...When the vet's kids needed college, student loan guarantees (and Sallie Mae to resell them) made the exercise somewhat easier...
...Glastris's experience at a Shriners Hospital may have been shaped by the tremendous frustration it sounds as if he felt from losing his arm at such an early age...
...Andrews is director of public relations for the International Shriners Hospitals' Headquarters...
...The unbelievably arrogant and poorly thought-out RCT proposal will only make a deteriorating situation worse...
...One of them asked me after a few months whether I would like to be trained as a "surgical technician"—otherwise also called a "scrub technician ." In those days, this being a new specialty, formal courses were unknown, and the few hospitals that experimented with the idea sort of grew their own by teaching their scrub technicians...
...Well, little by little they reconciled themselves to the inevitable, and today there are formal courses for scrub technicians and every hospital is using them...
...We noted Schroeder's fundraising letter for the Nicaragua Network, a pro-Sandinista group, and also that she later disassociated herself from it...
...Dupe Dope Steve Burkholder asserts that National Review, in an article co-authored by J. Michael Waller, "depicted Chris Dodd, Tom Harkin, and Pat Schroeder, among others, as Soviet dupes" ("And Why They Let Anyone Be An Informant," January...
...We labeled Dodd and Harkin leftist ideologues and cataloged a list of reasons why...
...when the ORS first told them that I would learn the job had to be heard to be believed...
...In contrast, President Bush would reduce capital gains tax rates for any old or new investment...
...I expect the recollection of Mr...
...It does not provide any "incentive" for investors to include more investments in start-up firms...
...The problem is common to just about all businesses below the Fortune 1,000, though not just people with new venture ideas...
...That's not true...
...DALE BUMPERS Washington, D.C...
...When young families needed houses after World War II, a lot of agencies and mechanisms (FNMA, GNMA, etc...
...Senator Bumpers is chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee...
...they know the paraplegic will be provided for in any case...
...In actuality, the entire approach at Shriners Hospitals is founded upon helping children to rise above their physical problems...
...Paul Glastris recounts his experience at a Shriners Hospital saying, "It seemed the whole point of Shriners was to get kids used to the idea of being handicapped...
...Allison is publisher of National Review...
...But we wouldn't even call him a "dupe...
...The author replies: Noting that, for want of space, the Monthly's editors chose to trim my description of the article co-authored by Waller that listed several members of Congress (including George Crockett), I stand by the summary...
...MICHAEL C. ANDREWS Tampa, Florida Mr...
...I have proposed that capital gains tax rates be reduced but only for new and direct investments in small businesses and only if the investments are held for four years...
...ERWIN FUCHS Seattle, Washington More on Denial I was quite surprised, perhaps shocked would be a better word, when I read "The Case For Denial" [December] by Paul Glastris...
...One type of federal program that might make some sense to look at is the loan guarantee business...
...French judges are never forced to choose between victimizing Michelin Tire with an unjust verdict and leaving a paraplegic to beg in the streets...
...Burkholder's purposes to slide over the "among others," which included Rep...
...Waller and Joseph Sobran bears out my one-sentence reading as an accurate representation of the broad-brush charges made in that article...
...The author replies: I guess you had to be there...
...The nursing shortage is real and critical...
...Another torturous rereading of the article by Messrs...
Vol. 21 • March 1989 • No. 2
