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However, there is a flip side to co-payments that the Joint Committee on Benefits needs to consider. For individuals with chronic illness or for families, the seemingly minuscule $10 payment can become a serious burden. For a family with three small children, the accumulated co-payment costs from ear infections, sore throats and shots can add up to hundreds of dollars. A serious illness can require multiple medical visits each week, and these amassed co-payments can also be a severe strain on already tight paychecks. For many Harvard workers, these co-payments can eat up more and more...
...learned to read his moods, when to talk and when not. I became inured to personal details, his chronic heartburn, his allergies. I became his Maalox bearer. I saw him angry, and thrilled, and frustrated, and depressed...He was incredibly undisciplined about time, and making decisions, and figuring out who should do what on staff, but there was a strict precision about self-revelation. He was always in control...
Experts said it could be the result of living longer with chronic illnesses, or the social isolation of the elderly, or the growing acceptance of the right-to-die movement. Whatever the reason, the suicide rate among Americans 65 and older climbed 9% between 1980 and 1992, to 19.1 per 100,000 persons, the highest rate of any age group, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Lousy retail sales lead to disappointing earnings, which sooner or later lead to lower stock prices, so Grant expects that the owners of stocks will have less to show for their investment than the owners of suits. Wall Street money manager Marty Zweig, a chronic pessimist, sees the current situation more optimistically. He thinks the sluggish economy will keep interest rates low, which in turn will drive stock prices higher, at least for a while...
...good, healthy, middle ground," Jaeger said last night. "The University was really vigorous in seeking the $10 per visit payment. But for people with chronic health conditions or a couple of kids who get a couple of earaches...some of our members could pay $500 to $600 in co-payments...