Insurers are concerned about the potential for new costs, while patient advocates worry that mental health will be neglected.
Some parents and students of the other schools at John Jay have protested the move, saying they will be neglected.
Worryingly, the $29.4 billion spending bill contains a debt-restructuring plan that means state workers' pension funds will be neglected for a year.
Until Americans are willing to spend less on themselves individually, and pay higher taxes instead, public goods and services will be neglected.
All this doesn't mean that the classical repertoire or the new play written by a single author will be neglected.
And many are also concerned that the hundreds of small and mid-sized companies that fall between the blue-chip and technology stocks that are the merger's focus will be neglected.Big investment banks, who might have been expected to be the merger's biggest boosters, harbour reservations too.
"The reality," Mr. Inouye said, "is that critical needs in communities throughout the country will be neglected: roads and bridges in disrepair, job training programs shuttered, and vital resources for national defense and law enforcement cut off, to name just a few".
Oil companies have had a famously hard time combining the scientists, engineers and explorers who work in their "upstream" divisions with the marketing men and garage owners "downstream .The greatest danger of all is that if greater effort and resources are applied to distribution, the product itself will be neglected.
The praise lavished on Mr Blair over the past few weeks has come at a price for the chancellor, who suffers by comparison.Finally, there is some anxiety that if the terrorist threat absorbs too much of the prime ministerial attention span, the domestic agenda, especially the hard grind of forcing change through the health service and the school system, will be neglected.
Politicians will find ways to evade the new constitution's strictures; crooked bankers and businessmen will cook the books and resist restructuring; pressing problems, such as the spread of AIDS and a surge in drug abuse, will be neglected; and the frustrated citizens, aware of their rights but unable to enforce them, will take to the streets.Such are the risks; but they are not unavoidable.
