As a result, the bill -- with its desperately needed and overdue benefits for more than 2 million unemployed Americans -- was pointlessly delayed a few days more.
Ideally, Congress should both modernize Medicare -- by increasing competition, improving quality and controlling costs -- and create a long-overdue drug benefit.
His departure from politics is long overdue and would benefit both Basque and Spanish people.CÉSAR GILMadridBlubber bannedSIR The primary purpose of Japan's whale research programme in the north Pacific is to examine the impact of whales where they are increasingly abundant and are consuming fish that are the target of declining fisheries ("The politics of whaling", September 9th).
Thereafter, pressured by the British Labour prime minister, Harold Wilson, and his home secretary, James Callaghan, he pushed through a raft of long overdue reforms designed to benefit the Catholic minority community.
It investigates banks based on Liabilities, Assets, Number of bank branches, international and exchange Activities, The combination of human resources, profits and losses, facilities, overdue demands and the benefit of electronic banking technology.
There are no losers when all racial groups work on their prejudices and give Black males the overdue and much-needed benefit of the doubt.
Cost-benefit analyses, long overdue, should answer tough questions like whether it's actually worth saving some neighborhoods in flood zones.
"Together with other tax legislation passed by the Congress this year," Mr. Summers said, "it would threaten our fiscal discipline and jeopardize our ability to strengthen Social Security and Medicare, pay down the national debt, enact well targeted tax cuts, provide a long-overdue voluntary Medicare prescription drug benefit and meet other pressing national priorities".
Millions of patients are already benefiting from similar overdue remedies, like the end of rescissions and prohibitive co-pays for preventive care.
The business community, the European Commission and the British government are very clear — TTIP is long overdue and will being huge benefits to the European economy, its people and its companies.
