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March 24, 2001
Editorials
A balancing act on nursing homes
Florida's nursing-home crisis is repeatedly portrayed as a battle between greedy lawyers and even greedier nursing-home chains. But the real parties whose needs should drive the debate and form the foundation for solutions are neither. They are, instead, the River Garden Hebrew Homes and Charlie McCorkles of the world: the not-for-profit, often faith-based homes and assisted living facilities whose insurance premiums have skyrocketed despite good records of care; they are the residents who suffer trauma and degradation in facilities that put profits over patients.
Help the hospitals
Instead of hurting hospitals through onerous cuts, lawmakers should provide them with the stable funding and adequate support they need to carry out their mission.
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Letters
Treated wood not a significant risk for children
Re: Protect the public, editorial, March 17.
Perspective
Taking jobs, alienating customers
For weeks Americans have been told that the outsourcing of high-tech jobs is good for our economy. So said Greg Mankiw, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in a recent report signed by President Bush. So, too, writes Thomas Friedman of the New York Times in articles praising the rise of call centers in India used for everything from making airline reservations and reading medical X-ray films to providing tech support for American computer firms.
Philip Gailey: Democrats fall off campaign finance reform wagon
Well, what do you know. Soft money is back, and it's making hypocrites of all those Democrats who fervently championed the McCain-Feingold campaign reform law, not to mention those Republicans who objected to the law's restrictions on issue advocacy.
Bill Maxwell: Who is for the farm worker?
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is touting legislation to improve the lives of Florida's 300,000-plus farm workers, who endure institutional and systemic injustices each day in our fields and groves and their personal lives.
Robyn E. Blumner: For some defendants, an American gulag
In Bernard Malamud's masterpiece The Fixer, inmate Yakov Bok was subjected to psychological torture in a Soviet gulag through the humiliations of constant shackling and repeated strip searches.
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