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Submitted by Newton on Tue, 03/30/2010 - 19:26.
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The background information by Jim Shultz (see attachment) on the Bolivian elections set for April 4 contains much useful information about local conditions. It needs to be supplemented, however, with a wider political frame and some comment about economics.
Submitted by Newton on Fri, 08/21/2009 - 09:46.
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Dear Senator Schumer,
The Buffalo News editorial for 8/19/09 advocates two reforms that could save health-care dollars: electronic medical records (which they reckon would save billions) and tort reform (which they reckon would save hundreds of billions).
You and everyone else favors the new form of record keeping and record sharing, in spite of worries about privacy that ACLU and others have expressed. Fine. I imagine that we will realize those savings, but that still leaves four 800-pound gorillas in the corners of the health-care lobby. Unfortunately you and most other senators (except Russ Feingold, bless his heart) seem cozy with the gorillas. Congress feeds them, and they feed Congressional campaign chests.
