Word: careful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people who suffer because of inadequate distribution of medical care, the poor and the black have always suffered the most. Before the government invented its patchwork medical insurance plans, the poor simply couldn't pay for decent care. And now, even with the advent of Medicare and Medicaid, coverage is usually not complete enough to meet basic medical needs...
...skimpy insurance umbrella under which the ghetto poor live does not mean that needy patients must sometimes forego care; there is a more subtle and more debilitating disadvantage as well. Jerome Pollack, executive director of the Med School's health plan, said last week that "since the supply of doctors here is limited, the poor actually have to compete with the affluent for available care. In effect, private insurance may deprive low-income areas of care by attracting doctors into the well-insured areas...
...overt aim of the Med School's plan is to help those medically-deprived poor patients. By the time the plan reaches its full enrollment in 1971, some 6000 people from the Mission Hill area should be signed up to get Harvard Health Plan care...
...Harvard Health Plan will be paid by the government. No one will be forced to switch to Harvard coverage; people on Medicaid will be allowed to choose which plan they want to join. Those who are able to get into the health plan will get virtually all their care for free. There may still be a $1 charge for doctor visits, but many of the gaping holes in Medicaid coverage will be filled...
...garden. His old man, he later discovered by reading books, had never been a "real" father to him. His old man should never have become a scientist. He should have remained a farmer. He loved to work the soil and watch things grow. Scott himself didn't care much for the soil, not to work in it anyway. He was scientifically inclined. But since his father was a scientist, he couldn't accept this inclination either. He felt science was pushed on him. So he had done nothing except sit in his father's garden and read. Scott couldn...