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...army suffers from an even more serious ailment: lack of enthusiasm. Since 1981, roughly half the troops trained by Americans have left the army at the end of their two-year tour. Only 15% of the 1,800 Salvadorans trained in the U.S. have re-enlisted. In rural provinces, teen-agers as young as 15 must be forcibly conscripted to meet manpower quotas...
...Look Me Over, and The Best Is Yet to Come; of a heart attack; in New York City. By the age of 25 Leigh had penned more than 200 unpublished song lyrics. In 1954, after visiting her father in a hospital where he was recovering from a heart ailment, she wrote Frank Sinatra's hit Young at Heart (with Composer Johnny Richards). Later she created the lyrics to the Broadway musicals Peter Pan and Little...
...limit on what it would pay for hospital care. "The incentive was perverse," explains Carolyne Davis, head of the Health Care Financing Administration, which runs Medicare. "The more hospitals spent, the more we paid." The new regulations place a ceiling on the amount a hospital receives for treating each ailment. Upon admission, Medicare patients will be assigned to one of 467 newly de fined "diagnosis-related groups," or DRGs, home on the nature of their jeopardizing Each DRG carries a specific rate of reimbursement. If the hospital treats the patient for less, it can keep the profit; if it charges...
...ease the adjustment of hospitals to the new arrangement, which is called the prospective payment plan, the Government will phase it in over three years. In ;he first year, Medicare reimbursements for each patient will be based 75% on the hospital's usual cost for treating the ailment in question and 25% on the new federal rate. One year later, the formula will be 50/50. After three years, hospitals will be reimbursed entirely on the basis of the federal rate...
DIED. Wilfred Burchett, 72, Australian journalist whose pro-Communist sympathies undercut the credibility of his many newspaper dispatches and books written behind the Iron Curtain in Europe and Asia, including wartime reports from North Korea and later North Viet Nam; of complications from a liver ailment; in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he had lived for the past year...