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Senator John Kerry's health care plan would expand coverage butwould fall short in transforming health insurance markets andmaking patients the key decision makers in the system. In effect,it would reinforce the status quo, with (according to one estimate)nine of every 10 dollars spent going to employers, insurancecompanies, and state governments, not to individuals.
The House-Senate conferees now attempting to reconcile twoprofoundly flawed Medicare bills should go back to the drawingboard and use as a blueprint the 1999 majority recommendations ofthe National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, whichproposed that Medicare beneficiaries be given a choice betweentraditional Medicare as it exists today and new, private plansoffering comprehensive, integrated benefits including fulloutpatient prescription drug coverage.
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Throughout the country, large municipalities are laboratories of democracy. New and innovative policies introduced in one market are often exported to others, and ultimately replicated...
MARION _ Voter apathy did not show up at candidates night Friday night in Marion.