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This fixed payment scheme has led to increased exploration and debate over differences in care patterns among hospitals. For specific DRG's, the actual resources used (days in the hospital, laboratory tests, consulations, etc.) have been found to vary enormously--often several-fold. "High cost" hospitals have been predictably criticized as wasteful, and predictably defended by others on the grounds that their patients are truly sicker in ways ignored by the DRG scheme...

Author: By Donald M. Berwick, | Title: Quality Care at Reasonable Cost | 12/17/1986 | See Source »

...hadn't seen the inside of a classroom between 1953 and last year." But three of his five sons went to Harvard--Timothy '84, Ted '86, and Matthew '90--and when Ted was a sophomore, he told his dad that he enrolled in a writing course taught by an actual writer...

Author: By Teresa L. Johnson, | Title: The Doolittle Who Does Lots | 12/4/1986 | See Source »

...pages of instructions and a worksheet to calculate how many exemptions to claim for their 1987 income tax withholding. The purpose of the voluminous instructions for the new W-4, IRS Commissioner Lawrence Gibbs says, is to help ensure that "people's withholding will be reasonably close to the actual amount of tax owed." At present, overwithholding by many taxpayers results in $70 billion worth of refunds annually, and underwithholding for others generates $440 million in penalties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Internal Revenue: A Reformed Tax Form? | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...told him not to break ground till I got the actual o.k. from the White House, but that six feet on a side sounded plenty roomy enough. The oldest of the four kids in the family was only 12, and six feet should be plenty long enough for a kid that age to stretch...

Author: By Jerry Doolittle, | Title: On the White House Beat | 11/26/1986 | See Source »

...increasingly crowded courtroom calendar. Amid the games and soaps, no fewer than four syndicated shows now offer entertainment in the form of real or simulated law cases. The TV docket began filling up in 1981 with the debut of The People's Court, whose innovative concept was to show actual small-claims cases being argued on camera. Participants agree to dismiss their cases in real court and abide by the decision of the TV judge; in return, the show agrees to pay the financial settlement. (If none is awarded, the participants divide $500; thus no one winds up a loser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Tell It to the Judges | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

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