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"Reform is primarily focused on health care coverage and reducing health care costs, and even optimistic estimates predict that any proposal on the table will still leave millions without access to affordable care, " said Rachel Ward, one of the authors of the "Deadly Delivery" report.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Sitting at the table has allowed me a privileged perspective and access that others, looking principally for "the story, " do not, I believe, always get.

CNN: Anthony Bourdain: Human race is 'essentially good'

If they have inside track access to documents and top-table ministers, and if their ideas are taken seriously and injected into government policy or the next manifesto, membership will be worth having.

BBC: Muzzled?

The UNESCO Moscow Office has initiated a high level round table "Creation of the system of open and universal access to public information in Bashkortostan" in Ufa, the capital of the Republic, 26 - 27th October 2006.

UNESCO: Republic of Bashkortostan and UNESCO Moscow Office: Cooperation For Prosperity | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

And why not, many will ask, after the extraordinary video of the Tory co-treasurer offering to sell access to the prime minister's private dinner table and his policy unit.

BBC: Cash for Cameron: Murdoch's glee?

The Sino-Forest case reveals that business is done in China through informal agreements with state or party officials, who grant access to licenses, resources, and markets only if they are paid under the table.

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