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Published: April 17, 1991
WASHINGTON, April 16— President Bush's budget director, Richard G. Darman, delivered a dire warning today about increases in the cost of health care, telling Congress that annual Government spending on Medicare and Medicaid would exceed Social Security outlays by the turn of the century.
The Government expects to spend $156 billion on the two health programs in this fiscal year, as against $269 billion for Social Security. Public and private health spending in the United States now exceeds $600 billion a year, or about $1.7 billion a day.
"Total health spending has grown from less than 6 percent of the gross national product three decades ago to about 12 percent today," Mr. Darman said at a hearing of the Senate Finance Committee. "It is currently projected to reach 17 percent by the year 2000 and 37 percent of G.N.P. by 2030."
Mr. Darman did not say how he had computed those estimates. He did say that the country would probably not let current trends continue to the point that health care accounted for more than one-third of the gross national product, the nation's total output of goods and services. Spending More Than Profits
Mr. Darman said business spending on health insurance premiums and health care for employees and former employees had increased so much that, in 1989, it was "in excess of 100 percent of after-tax profits" of all American companies, taken together.
Health care is usually treated as a cost of doing business. Under current law, employers who pay health insurance premiums for employees may deduct the payments as a business expense on their tax returns.
The hearing did not focus on any specific legislative proposal, but, as with similar hearings being held this month by the House Ways and Means Committee, it reflected Congress's seemingly insatiable appetite for information about health care.
Business executives told the Finance Committee today that urgent action was needed to help control health care costs. Kenneth A. Macke, chairman and chief executive officer of the Dayton Hudson Corporation, said his company's medical expenses rose to $115 million last year from $60 million in 1985. Big Problems for Big Steel
Walter F. Williams, chairman and chief executive officer of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, said health costs for the steel industry had more than doubled in the last decade and now accounted for more than 15 percent of total employment costs. Health care costs seriously threaten the competitiveness of this country's steel industry because they are two to three times as high as for steel industries in other countries, he said.
As if to underline the problem, Federal researchers reported today that health spending accounted for a far bigger share of the gross national product in the United States than in other countries.
George J. Schieber, research director of the Health Care Financing Administration, the Federal agency that runs the Government health insurance plans for the elderly and for the poor, said he had found that no other Western industrialized country spent more than 9 percent of its gross national product on health care. Moreover, he said, the proportion of G.N.P. spent on health has actually declined in some countries commonly thought to have more comprehensive national health care programs.
Mr. Schieber's findings were reported in Health Affairs, a quarterly journal published by Project Hope, a private health foundation.
He said that spending on health care averaged $2,354 for each person in the United States in 1989. That was 40 percent higher than the comparable figure in Canada and twice the average for the 24 industrial countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
In his projections of health spending, Mr. Darman assumed that Medicaid outlays would grow 12.7 percent a year, as they did from 1985 to 1990. That assumption seems implausible but not impossible, health economists say.
Mr. Darman objected to suggestions that the United States put some type of overall limit on national health spending. Such a limit would lead inevitably to the rationing of health care, he said.
But Senator Thomas A. Daschle, Democrat of South Dakota, said health care was already being rationed, on the basis of people's ability to pay.
The political difficulty of restraining health care costs was dramatized today as House Democrats denounced President Bush for proposing cutbacks in Medicare. Representative Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri, the House majority leader, said the proposals "would place the quality of medical care for senior citizens at risk."


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3rd week. Natalie has been evicted. I liked her. She was smart and funny and could easily ruffle the housemates feathers.
Video - Big Brother's Jayne Connery and Natalie Rowe come to blows....again.
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Final thoughts. Natalie is not as bad as people made her out to be, I think she is a very decent and respectable person who was made to look bad by Jayne and Hughie.
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More and More Studies Show that Food Trucks Are Popular with City Restaurants
Municipalities across the country are getting involved in the great food truck debate. Some areas are welcoming to food trucks and make it easier for them to operate. Other areas have passed restrictive laws that make it impossible for food trucks to operate. Regardless of how different city governments feel about food trucks, one thing has recently been made clear: An overwhelming number of residents like them.
Almost 80% of people feel "very favorable" about allowing food trucks in their area
According to one recent survey, 78.6% of people surveyed said they felt "very favorable" about allowing food trucks in their area. The number of people who said they were "not favorable at all"? Less than 4%. This is some pretty convincing evidence that people do want food trucks in their city.
Reasons consumers are excited about food trucks
The survey also asked consumers what they liked about food trucks. The most common response was that they liked have more options and inexpensive options to have a quick meal. More than 91% of people who worked in a downtown area said that they would frequent a food truck if one was there, while just 8% said they wouldn't be willing to try it.
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Respondents were also asked if they believed that having food trucks present in a shopping district would make their shopping experience better and 62% said that it would enhance their shopping. 3.4% said that food trucks would take away from their shopping experience.
Food truck revenue is on the rise
It's an exciting time to be in the mobile food business. From just 2010 to 2015, the food truck revenue nationwide grew almost 10% each year for a total of $857 million in 2015. This seems like a pretty good indicator that the trend is here to stay for the moment.
Restaurants are mostly against food trucks
Of course, the demographic that's most consistently against food trucks are restaurants. They don't want to compete with food trucks that can sweep in during their busiest hours and take customers away.
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Sunderland go to lengths to deny Di Canio fascist links
We're not whizzes when it comes to the worlds of HR and PR, but anytime you've got to issue a press release on someone's first day in the job explaining how they're definitely NOT a racist and probably not a fascist sympathizer, then the appointment is almost certainly ill-judged.
Hours after Sunderland confirmed that Paolo Di Canio was going to be at the helm for their unsuccessful battle against relegation, questions were being asked about his politics and stated fondness for the ideas of Benito Mussolini. Former Foreign Secretary, David Milliband became former Sunderland director when he stepped down from the club's board in protest over the Italian's politics.
The club attempted some damage limitation that was akin to throwing sambuca on a raging inferno. On April 1, they released a statement worthy of the date pretty much explaining that Paolo has lots of black friends and the 'I tired it once, but I didn't inhale' excuse, slightly adapted for expressing your belief in totalitarian system of government.
I expressed an opinion in an interview many years ago. Some pieces were taken for media convenience. They took my expression in a very, very negative way – but it was a long conversation and a long interview
This morning the press conference was cut short when it became clear the club assumed journalists would simply let the issue slide and ask the important questions like 'can Danny Graham form an effective partnership with Stephane Sessegnon?' and 'what is the point of Titus Bramble?' Instead, they rightly badgered Di Canio into a further unconvincing statement on where he stands politically. Never before has a man holding a club scarf aloft for newspaper photographers been such a tense and joyless affair.
Thankfully, the club allowed us exclusive access to his photo album, which conclusively proves he is neither a fascist or a racist. Would a fascist rock out to Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock? Well maybe, but he'd probably hate himself for being so close to so many smelly hippy liberals. And look, there he is hanging out with the Banks family out in Bel Air. Big Phil wouldn't stand for that if Paolo harboured any remotely racist tendencies.
As for Sunderland, it's fair to say the appointment hasn't assured anyone of their ability to retain Premier League status. They're just 15/8 to get relegated, a price that has been boosted by QPR's virtual guaranteeing of one of the three spots.
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When I set out from Falmouth on 14 June 1968, no one knew if it was possible to sail a boat non-stop around the world. The closest anyone had got previously was sailing non-stop from Britain to Australia.
When I set out from Falmouth on 14 June 1968, no one knew if it was possible to sail a boat non-stop around the world. The closest anyone had got previously was sailing non-stop from Britain to Australia.
Just before I left, a stranger came up to me and said, "Are you this chap who thinks he can sail non-stop around the world?" I said, "Well, I'm going to have a go." He said, "It can't be done and, in any case, you couldn't do it."
In fact, I did sail non-stop around the world, arriving back in Falmouth 312 days later. Ellen MacArthur is on course to complete the same journey in 72 days, a new record. The difference between her voyage and mine is vast. My boat, the Suhaili, was small and wooden. MacArthur's boat, B & Q, is three times as long as mine, half as heavy and has sails three or four times larger.
To navigate, I had a sextant and a chronometer (a posh navy word for a clock). The equipment had changed very little since Captain Cook's time. MacArthur has GPS (global positioning system), which updates every three seconds, telling you where you are, what speed you are doing and what direction you're going in. So, in fact, you don't need to navigate. I spent about two hours a day trying to figure out where I was, working it out longhand.
MacArthur will also be in constant communication with her team. She can just dial a number and talk. I was communicating with the UK once a week via my radio - not that I always got through. Just after I'd made that call was the only time I ever felt really low. However, my radio packed up after two and a half months so, for eight months of the voyage, I didn't have any contact with anyone.
Before I went, I'd never been on my own for longer than a few hours so I had no idea how it would affect me. But, as it turned out, it didn't bother me at all, although I did wonder sometimes whether I was going mad without knowing it. I felt fine but I might have come back to land and found out that I was bonkers. So, I learnt poetry, such as Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, as a mental exercise.
When I set out, I wasn't worried about my ability to sail. But I had no idea whether my boat had the ability to survive the Southern Ocean where waves can be up to 30 metres high. One day, as I was sailing through the Southern Ocean, I went on deck and saw a huge wave - about 25 metres - coming towards me. I realised I wasn't going to get below deck before it hit and that, if I stayed on deck, I'd get washed off, so I climbed the rigging. For what seemed like an hour - but it can only have been five to ten seconds - all I could see was me and two masts. The boat was completely submerged. However, it popped up again, as they tend to do.
These days, you can get accurate predictions of what the weather is going to do 10 days ahead, so you can avoid storms. I couldn't do that. All I had, after the radio packed up, was a barometer, which came from a pub. It had 'Lovely Day for a Guinness' written on it. When that dropped, I knew there was another depression coming, but I didn't know how serious it was and, in any case, I couldn't do anything. I just had to take whatever weather came my way.
So, modern sailors would probably be able to avoid storms like the ones I encountered in the Southern Ocean. And, even if they were faced by a 25-metre wave, they would just surf it. Modern boats are much faster so you can run with the waves.
I was in the Southern Ocean for 150 days and I was permanently damp or wet for that time. I had waterproofs but they are nothing like you have today. I cut holes in my boots because I couldn't bear the squelching.
I lost my water tanks at the same time as the radio so I lived off what I could catch in the sails. And, just before I went round Australia, my self-steering system broke. So, from then on I was on the Knox-Johnston Mark II self-steering system: my left and right arms. I'd steer for about 16 hours a day. I'd dash downstairs, grab a tin of bully beef and munch it cold in the cockpit. I was getting about six hours sleep a day, but in two or three doses. I don't know how much sleep MacArthur will be getting. I imagine, not much. These days, sailors seem to think it's clever to go without sleep. They almost seem to be trying to see who can go around the world with the least sleep.
Born: 17 March 1939
Departure: 14 June 1968
Finish: 22 April 1969
Total journey time: 312 days
Boat: Suhaili
Type: Teak-hulled ketch
Length: 9.8metres
Beam: 3.4metres
Weight: 14 tonnes
Speed: 90 to 100 miles per day
Communications: Radio - which broke 10 weeks into the voyage
Navigation tools: Sextant, a chronometer and tables. The loss of the radio meant it was no longer possible to obtain time checks.. Weather forecasts too were unobtainable, reliance being placed on a barometer (which Knox-Johnston took from a pub).
Human contact: Once a week until radio broke
Supplies: 1,550 tins of corned beef, pork sausages, condensed milk and spaghetti
Clothing: Oilskins and pullovers
Budget: Modest. Knox-Johnston built the 'Suhaili' himself
Born: 8 July 1976
Departure: 28 November 2004
Finish: Must finish by 7.04am on 9 February 2005 to beat current record
T otal journey time: Hopefully less than 72 days, 22 hours, 54 minutes and 22 seconds
Boa otal journey timet: B&Q
Type: Carbon fibre trimaran
Length: 22.9metres
Beam: 16.2metres
Weight: 8.3 tonnes
Speed: About 430 miles a day
Communications: Data and voice contact over internet connection allows for constant communication and up-to-date detailed weather forecast information, satellite phone (plus a spare), three mini distress-message sending terminals which can also send location details to land team. There are also 12 cameras and eight microphones on board so MacArthur can share her progress with the world
Navigation tools: Global positioning system which pinpoints her exact location within three seconds
Human contact: In regular contact over internet
Supplies: To make the boat as light as possible, MacArthur has stocks of freeze-dried food (adapted from food developed for military use), plus energy boosting snacks and 11 packets of chewing gum. Water is not stored on board but made from sea water using a desalinator which produces 1.5 gallons per hour
Clothing: Special lightweight oilskins complete with neoprene rubber seals at the neck and wrists to make them waterproof. Gore-Tex boots with gaiters will ensure MacArthur's feet stay dry throughout the voyage
Budget: About £2m
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by A verified traveler
Just Ok...Posted Nov 21, 2016
Pros: The pools were nice. The fitness team was outstanding.
Cons: The bathrooms in the hotel
We visited this hotel for a friends wedding. The hotel was just ok for the price we paid. We didn't go through our friends travel agent since the price was even higher, we book through Expedia. The hotel is considered Gourmet Inclusive, which I didn't find to be true. Most nights,the food was not great. I ate bread and mashed potatoes at the wedding because the meat was so over cooked I had trouble chewing. And the last night we were there we went to the Caribbean themed restaurant, where I did not eat either. The whole food experience was not bad, the Italian place and the Tapas place were simply amazing. The rooms were fine, except do not share a room with someone other then a person you want to hear/see you use the restroom. The door has a 2 inch gap and is made of frosted glass. So if you like to hear/see a person on the toilet then this is great, however if you are rooming with a friend I suggest asking them to stand on the porch while you go. And flush multiple times, because nothing seems to go down. However on the plus, the staff was extremely friendly especially the fitness staff. If you want a great fitness class on vacation Jorge and Louis are your guys. No frills, hardcore boot camp and beach functional training. Great classes and really motivating instructors. Overall the drinks were good and the decor was nice, just feel like we paid a whole lot of money for a very little amount of value.
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Average hotel, look for better if you want luxuryPosted May 3, 2016 on Hotels
Good, not great. Many others probably much better than this all-inclusive. Food is ok but probably doesn't say much when room service was the best food there. I would investigate others in the area and put this at around average to above average, by no means a 4-star hotel. Everyone in our group had room issues upon checkin and trust all the reviews when they say that the ocean view is better. It's not. You barely see the ocean and no one was thrilled about there rooms as if there weren't any real huge differences.
for Everyoneby A verified traveler
nice all inclusive hotel for reasonable pricePosted Apr 11, 2016
For the money spent, I think it the best deal around. Check prices on expedia. I really enjoyed the stay The food is above average but not the Ritz. Entertainment is a bit weak but I would recommend it to families with small kids and adults
for Everyoneby A verified traveler
Stress Free VacationPosted Mar 23, 2016
Pros: I looked up on-line, which all inclusive hotel chain had the best food in Riviera Maya.
Location: We stayed on the property this time and did not venture out.
Everything about the resort was amazing. If possible, book a room in the premier (adult only with the age of an adult being 18) building. This level gives you a more customized experience with choice of pillow, natural soaps and aromatherapy for your room. The food on a whole was definitly gourmet. The Spoon has a wonderful buffet for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The Caribbean restaurant and the Italian restaurant were both delicious. The Mexican, not so much. No worries about the freshness of the food. If you are a big drinker, the drinks are free flowing. At the pool, there is drink service only. No food is allowed at the pool so lunch time is a good time to take a break from the sun. Smoking was almost non-existent while we were there and I could not of been more thrilled. Cannot wait to go back again next year. It was also family friendly.
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Posted Mar 18, 2016
Met some really great people, the food was good, the service was great
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Posted Mar 16, 2016
Pros: Too pricy compare to the quality
There was Aunt everywhere in side of hotel. Sofa bed was so terrible that we could not sleep well. We suppose to have two queen beds. Only one bed with sofa bed.
by A verified traveler from Columbus, Ohio
Well kept groundsPosted Aug 9, 2015
Pros: The pools and the well kept grounds and room.
Cons: Over booking was a big problem for most of our group. The food could be much warmer.
The hotel was very well maintained inside and out, the staff was pleasant and worked hard to meet the needs of the guests. We stayed at this hotel for a wedding, in total there were 31 of us. Upon arrival we were told they over booked. Many were not given the rooms that were reserved, and paid for in advance. Many had to repack and change rooms during their stay. My husband and I were forced to stay and a different hotel the first night, as they didn't have a room for us. The manager did pay for several taxi trips so that we could come back and spend time with our group, a credit towards a spa treatment (which we enjoyed), and we were upgraded to the same room in the adult section. Over all I would say our stay was nice. The food was average and usually on the warm/cool side, when we asked for hot food they did make sure our food was served hot. During our stay there was a seaweed boom, no fault of the hotel, and typical for this time of the season. The hotel worked very hard each day to try to clean it up. Thankfully, the pools are beautiful, spacious, and again, very well maintained. We enjoyed the pool time greatly. Just a side booking note: Many friends upgraded and paid more for a "beach view", we were surprised to see that this meant the room faced the beached, but it did not mean you could see the beach from that distance, or from the palm trees. Be aware that you may not see the beach if you opt for the upgrade.
for Everyoneby A verified traveler from jack
Beautiful Hotel clean and comfortable as your homePosted Aug 2, 2015
I love this Hotel the staff so friendly room is so clean room service so fast i love this hotel and definitely I will recommend this hotel to my friends
by A verified traveler from Kansas City
Decent hotel ..Posted Jun 16, 2015
I was so excited to visit Mexico for the first time, but I was already rubbed the wrong way when we got there and couldn't find our reservation. They had us under the wrong name, my husband's middle name was our last name. After they finally found us (took about 10 minutes and 3 employees) they took us to what they thought would be our room. We open the door, and there is someone else's stuff strung across the room. We have to go back to the front desk and get a new room, since they gave us a key to the wrong room. Thankfully there was no one in there when we walked in. We went for a wedding and told other couples how this happened, and apparently this did not only happen to us. It happened to about 3 other people. The beach on the property was a huge let down. There were rocks about two feet into the water, which you couldn't see, because the water was murky and brown like the color of a lake. There was also a ton of red seaweed along the entire beach. The water was warm though, which was nice. The staff was more than willing to please and the food was great. The pools were clean and we loved the swim up bar. All inclusive is definitely the way to go. The first two days of our trip were great, but the second two days it literally monsooned. The wind blew off half of one of the smaller restaurant roofs, and the rain made everything wet, including things indoors. Roofs leaked, puddles collected around doors and windows, and the power went out on countless occasions.
by A verified traveler
Not worth the moneyPosted Apr 22, 2015
Pros: 24 hour room service.
Location: Nothing was close, it was pretty secluded
The hotel was very spread out, not very user friendly. The ease of using the facilities was not good. Between weird hours for the restaurants and bars and inconsistent enforcement of rules of family friendly areas and hotel dress code made the experience not enjoyable. Unfortunately most rooms only have queen beds, even though the are noted as kings during reservations.


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1. Yule is NOT a minor sabbat. "Whenever I hear a Neo-Pagan say that the winter solstice is a 'minor Sabbat', I can't help but roll my eyes. What makes it 'minor'? The fact that Margaret Murray only listed the cross-quarters as witches' sabbats? Because Gerald Gardner only added the quarter days as an afterthought? [Read More…]
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3. Paganism and Christianity In my previous post, I proposed that the reason why there are so few original winter solstice songs for Neopagans and the reason why the winter solstice is treated as a minor holiday by Neopagans is one and the same: Neopagans have an aversion to all things Christian. A good example [Read More…]
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Swindon Dance is a registered charity (No. 1111476) and a not-for-profit arts organisation. We rely on the generosity of our audiences, businesses, and other grant making bodies to sustain us.
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Becoming a Friend of Swindon Dance is a way of expressing your support for our work, and also shows a strong commitment to our future.
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We welcome students from other institutions to earn credit with Eastern Gateway to transfer toward a degree at their home school! In order to become a Transient student with us simply follow the steps below.
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Build a Thick Skin on Your Road to Wealth – Wealth Builders "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember-the only taste of success some people have when they take a bite out of you." – Zig Ziglar Developing a thick skin is one of the best things that you can do for yourself on the road to building wealth. This doesn't mean being a jerk or arrogant. Instead, what it DOES mean is having a knowing that you are on the right path and doing the right thing regardless of what some negative dream-stealing people may say about you or what you are trying to accomplish. It can be tough to hear negative talk about yourself or what you are working to accomplish. This can be especially challenging when the person is close to … Read entire article »
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Strengthen the Mind- Take The Privilege Walk
Get ready to strengthen your inclusion acumen and improve existing relationships! A Privilege Walk is an experiential activity to highlight how people benefit or are marginalized by systems in our society. Many people with certain privileges never notice them, because they are so woven into the mainstream that those who have them cannot see them. A Privilege Walk allows participants to see and discuss the complicated intersections of privileges and marginalizati in a reflective way. Our Privilege Walk facilitator, Alexis Kantor, is a dedicated advocate of diversity and inclusion at Target and in the Minneapolis community. You won't want to miss an opportunity to participate in this meaningful event with Alexis as our expert and engaging facilitator.
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Optional 45 minute yoga session with special host Alchemy starting at 7:30 am. Please bring your own yoga mat if you plan to attend.
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Kim Brunner, Operations Director, Schwan's and Valerie Conard, Sr.Director Finance, Target Corporation
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Alexis Kantor, VP Product Design, Target Corporation
7:30-8:15 AM: Strengthen Your Core- Please join our 45 minute Yoga session hosted by Alchemy (optional)
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