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Health Care and the Uninsured
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
1.30.2004
Now that Washington has promised America's seniors subsidized pills, politicians have turned their focus to the uninsured. The presidential campaign season has produced a flurry of plans to solve, forever, the problem of the uninsured. This isn't going to happen. Short of moving to a totally government-run monopoly health system, the uninsured, like winter in Buffalo, N.Y., will be a much-cursed but intractable fact of life
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Tech's Immediate Future
Technology Op-Ed
1.30.2004
The Department of Commerce recently reported that "U.S. IT producers remain the most competitive in the world." This is good news for the moment, but many, particularly in Silicon Valley, are wary about the future.
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Appendix of AMICI
Press Release
1.27.2004
PRI Applauds Efforts to Streamline Telecommunications for Consumers - Appendix: Amici
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Pharmaceutical economics
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
1.23.2004
The Jan. 14 article "S.F. joins fight to get drugs from Canada" describes an effort by San Francisco's 11 supervisors to import cheap drugs from Canada. But what they really want is to piggyback on Canadian price controls. This would be a disaster for Canadians and Americans alike.
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Let Voters Kill Health Care Law
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
1.16.2004
Your article "Fight over SB 2 continues" (Sacramento Business Journal online news item, Dec. 16) describes an effort by anti-business groups to block a March 2004 referendum on repealing Senate Bill 2. Signed by Gov. Gray Davis several days before he was voted out of office, SB 2 mandates that employers provide healthcare coverage starting in 2006.
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Some Choose To Forgo Health Insurance Plans
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
1.9.2004
Now that Washington has promised America's seniors subsidized pills, politicians have turned their focus to the uninsured. The presidential campaign season has produced a flurry of plans to solve, forever, the problem of the uninsured. This isn't going to happen.
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Is Friendster the New TIA?
Technology Op-Ed
1.7.2004
The idea of centralizing data to find patterns and links among people is no longer limited to governments or corporations. Individuals are now getting into the game with "social networking" web sites, the hottest thing in Silicon Valley .
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