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No other country spends anything like the amount of money we do on health care. And yet no other industrialized country has as ragged a safety net as we get for our money. When $940 billion cannot buy poor kids in Philadelphia basic dental care because the state has eliminated their benefits to get a handle on costs, when HIV prevention programs are closing amid an epidemic in New York, California and other states because the public hospitals and city agencies have run out of funds, when rural farmers in Minnesota delay taking their sick kids to the doctor because they cannot afford the price, something must be done

Perhaps the most important tool we can borrow from our neighbors is the use of fixed overall budgets. Fixed budgets do have a price. They are likely to restrict access to specialists and expensive technology. But the trade-off in terms of greater access to primary care and preventive services, which each of these countries displays, seems worth it. For until these countries decided to place caps on their health-care budgets, they were burdened, as we continue to be, with spiraling inflation in prices and cost. The rest of the industrialized world knows that cost containment requires governments to set fixed caps on how much money can be spent on health care each year

Perhaps the most important tool we can borrow from our neighbors is the use of fixed overall budgets. Fixed budgets do have a price. They are likely to restrict access to specialists and expensive technology. But the tradeoff in terms of greater access to primary care and preventative services, which each of these countries displays, seems worth it. For until these countries decided to place caps on their health-care budgets, they were burdened, as we continue to be, with spiraling inflation in prices and cost. The rest of the industrialized world knows that cost containment requires governments to set fixed caps on how much money can be spent on health care each year

The Health-Care Financing Administration, the folks in the U.S. federal medicare program, just issued a report stating that our collective bill for health care will hit $1.7 trillion US by the year 2000

The Health Care Financing Administration, the folks in the U.S. government who run the U.S. Medicare program, just issued a report stating that Americans' collective bill for health care will hit $1.7 trillion by the year 2000

Arthur Caplan avers that price control in the pharmaceutical industry must be a central feature of Pres Clinton's promised health-care reform plan because of the industry's penchant for raising medicine prices to outrageous levels

Depo-Provera has been on the market for some time as a cancer drug. It cost $12 a dose. Last October the Food and Drug Administration cleared Depo-Provera for use as an injectable contraceptive. Upjohn quickly raised the price to $34 a dose

In waiving any appeal of his death sentence he wrote, "I must be executed before I have an opportunity to escape of kill someone else. If I do escape I promise you I will kill and rape again and I will enjoy every minute of it." Considering the misery he has left in his wake, it is hard to resist the urge to want [Westley Allan Dodd] dead. The declarations of doctors that they will not participate in executions seems frivolous in the face of what a man like Dodd has done to children

In 1989 [Westley Allan Dodd], then 28 years old, confessed to authorities in the state of Washington that he had stabbed to death two brothers, Cole and William Neer. He also admitted repeatedly raping and then killing Lee Iseli. Lee Iseli was 4 years old. The Cole brothers were 10 and 11 when Dodd killed them