Word: bargain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...phytoestrogens offer boomers a better bargain? Many women clearly think so. "Close to a natural wonder drug," says UCLA breast-cancer surgeon Dr. Susan Love in her recently published Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book (Random House, $25). At 49, Love, a vocal and controversial critic of hormone-replacement therapy, has entered perimenopause. To cope, she exercises daily, adds phytoestrogen-rich foods like soybeans and flaxseed to her diet and doses herself with black cohosh, an herbal source of phytoestrogens that comes in liquid or tablet form...
...backlash is cutting across all segments. Doctors are banding together to bargain with HMOs or even offer their own health plans, and so are some unions. Employers started the managed-care revolution by herding their workers into HMOs, but now a third of companies polled by the Washington Business Group on Health express concern that the pressure to keep costs down is hurting the quality of care their employees receive...
Physicians Organizations are springing up across the continent either to bargain with HMOs for better terms or to offer their own health plans to employers. Last October, Primary Care LCC, a group of 170 physicians in the suburbs south of Boston, won a contract with Secure Horizons, a managed-care plan, to treat some of the plan's 40,000 Massachusetts Medicare patients. In Los Angeles, UCLA Medical Group, which began in 1992 with just two physicians, expects to have 80 by midsummer. It already has two full-time vans carrying patients from suburban doctors' offices to the star-studded...
...fact a very popular guy around the White House at the time, and when he left, portrayed his trouble as merely a billing dispute. He was just a good friend who was in a spot, who had a family, who could use some help." Even if a bargain was indeed struck, "obstruction of justice is very difficult to prove, and this is a case where the White House really has its stories straight. All in all," says McAllister, " White House 1, Starr...
...with quality. A collateral force ensured that tuition would not only rise but also rise at the same rate for comparable schools. Colleges in the Ivy League have always kept close watch on one another, setting their tuition to make sure no one school became so much of a bargain that it drew the best students just on the basis of price. Less prestigious schools set their prices in relation to what the Ivies charged. Says Meyerson: "We were building up a kind of notion about colleges and universities that the higher the price, the better they were...