Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perverse Insurance. Doctors are partly to blame, sometimes allowing patients to go to the hospital when they might be treated or operated on just as well in the doctor's office. Indeed, Administrator Martin Ulan of New Jersey's Hackensack Hospital goes so far as to estimate that 50% of the patients in his hospital might be treated at home. Under many private insurance plans, however, the policyholder gets no payment unless he has been hospitalized. According to Dr. Ray Brown of Duke University, "insurance actuaries have been the architects of the medical care system...
...true that the Negroes themselves are by and large woefully ignorant of their own past and of the many important figures who have dotted it ever since the birth in James-town during 1624 of William Tucker, the first Negro child born in the United States. Part of the blame for this general ignorance can be squarely laid to the deficiencies in our public school textbooks, which are only now starting to receive the careful attention they should have elicited long...
...about. Watts blew sky-high in the midst of the greatest legislative activity on civil rights in a century. City after city has become the scene of rioting after-not before-the enactment of a whole spate of Great Society programs. To a degree, the programs themselves are to blame: they have awakened the Negro to what is available in America's opulent society and whetted his appetite for more. And, as Charles Silberman noted in his Crisis in Black and White: "The Negroes' impatience, bitterness, and anger are likely to increase the closer they come to full...
...socialist revolution. And even though his love has not only been wed but ravaged by all sorts of adventurers, he still regards her as essentially pure, as innocent as she seemed when she first appeared before him in his youth. It is, he believes, her captors who are to blame. But in so often allowing emotion to obscure fact, myth to overwhelm reality, he only proves once more, alas, that no bourgeois gentleman can be as sentimental as a doctrinaire proletarian revolutionary...
Airlines officials like to farm out at least a little of the blame. "When 20 grey Samsonite bags are sitting on a delivery carousel," says a TWA man, "it is quite conceivable that Jane Roe is going to pick up John Doe's bag. And if she does not, there could always be some con man waiting around who will...