Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administration's inflation fighters regrouped and returned to Congress last week with yet another hospital cost bill for the new session. Patched together from the tattered remains of the original plan, scraped up from the Congressional floor, the new proposal is obviously the victim of a long political struggle. The current bill gives the hospital industry several months to voluntarily limit inflation, and imposes mandatory controls only if that effort fails. The mandatory program exempts states that have their own cost containment programs, as well as new or rural hospitals, health maintenance organizations, and other facilities that can claim special...
...hold off the flood of inflationary growth without addressing the source; his approach is entirely superficial. The health care industry obeys the peculiar laws of nearly insatiable demand controlled by doctors and rising prices set by medical suppliers insensitive to hospital administrators because they knew he can pass the cost on to the insurer...
Since the 1930s, commercial insurance firms have reimbursed hospitals on a cost-plus basis--the more hospitals spend, the more they collect. By the '60s, slightly inflated costs caused hospital bills were to weigh heavily on families without sufficient insurance and liberal America introduced Medicaid and Medicare to ease the burden...
Walker said she would have won the three-meter dive if she hadn't "missed her spot," which he called an "aggressive mistake." He said the error "cost her three points with each judge, and she needed two more from each...
Amin lavished on his forces such perks as free whisky, tape recorders and, for top officers, Mercedes cars-as well as modern Soviet-made arms. For a while, Amin could easily pay the high cost of keeping his troops happy. During the surge in world coffee prices in the mid-1970s, Uganda's exports put as much as $150 million a year into Amin's treasury. But coffee prices have since plummeted from a high of $3.18 per pound to $1.28 as of last week. In addition, increasing amounts of coffee are simply being smuggled...