Suchergebnisse

Advocates universal & comprehensive health insurance (1) to cover the 16% of Americans who now have no public or private coverage; (2) to help hospitals pressured to end the cross-subsidies that previously enabled them to care for the uninsured; (3) to protect the jobs &, thus, the communities of health care workers; & (4) to improve the care received by the currently underinsured. It is allowed, however, that the US nonparliamentary political system all but precludes the enactment of the sort of ambitious, cohesive plan needed to repair the health care system. Thus, even though an incremental approach tends to politically weaken those it does not directly help, several smaller steps for improving the organization & financing of care are suggested: (A) slowing the shift of not-for-profit providers to the for-profit sector, possibly through the power of the states' attorneys general; (B) regulating & demanding greater accountability from health maintenance organizations; & (C) strengthening & improving Medicare. E. Blackwell

Examines reasons for the growth of health maintenance organizations and managed care, the problems engendered, and why they continue despite dissatisfaction among key participants.

"Current Methods and Methodology in Ladino Teaching" presents an
historical overview of Ladino research in Israel from the early 1960s
until the present day, which forms a backdrop for recent developments
in the pedagogy of Ladino. Although the researchers of the sixties were
primarily interested in the preservation of archaic Spanish forms in
the Ladino ballads, recent years have witnessed the establishment of
Ladino as a field of university investigation in its own right. As
a result of an increased interest in Sefardic Studies as a separate
discipline, committed scholars have successfully convinced Israeli
universities that Ladino should be transmitted to a young generation of
students as a research tool. Accordingly, most of the Ladino language
learning materials are prepared for university students for the purpose
of scientific investigation. Proficiency in Ladino using the Rashi
script is preferable to Latin letters as it gives the student access to
several centuries of Ladino literary documents. Adequate Hebrew/Ladino
and Ladino/Hebrew dictionaries have yet to be developed.