Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reunion guests tackle more serious fare tomorrow--a morning seminar featuring President Bok, L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions, and Dean Rosovsky, who will discuss "Harvard Today," and an afternoon session on "Government: What Has It Done for Me Lately (and can I afford it)" led by Class politicians Sen. John C. Culver (D-Iowa), and Reps. David Bowen (D-Miss.) and Anthony Beilenson...
...monthly fee would be too high for most prospective patients to afford, unless employers paid most of the premiums. Companies are only beginning to explore the idea. In the Detroit area, GM, Ford, Chrysler and the U.A.W. have joined to sponsor the largest H.M.O. in Michigan, called Health Alliance Plan. Says Jim Walworth, executive director of the plan: "It is our feeling that H.A.P. rates will be 10% lower than the costs of typical conventional medical programs in this area...
Unquestionably, this system has saved innumerable lives and improved the nation's health by encouraging people to seek medical care that they could not otherwise afford (few could without insurance: total payments to doctors and hospitals will work out to more than $3,500 this year for a typical family of four). But the system could hardly have been better designed to fan inflation than if that had been its purpose. It has in effect repealed for medicine the last vestiges of the law of supply and demand, a free market equivalent of the law of gravity, and made health...
...were not nearly so accurate as the CAT." But when it comes to the usefulness of whole body scanning there is considerably more disagreement, even though evidence is mounting in the machine's favor. Another important question is how many of the devices the country needs, and can afford...
...patients at an annual cost of more than $1 billion. By the 1980s the projection is 60,000 patients at an estimated cost exceeding $2 billion a year. Some observers wonder whether the program has been efficient. Even more important is the question of whether society can afford the program...