Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many inflation-wary Representatives noted that the Congressional Budget Office estimated the bill would cost the Government $5.3 billion and add $100 to an average family's food bill for the year. Said Massachusetts Republican Silvio Conte: "We have heard from the farmers who have been camping in town. But we haven't heard from the consumers who don't have the luxury of taking three months off to lobby Congress." Besides, President Carter had promised to veto the bill as inflationary. Said Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas: "This is just a meaningless charade." The House...
...benefits is economy. Because the routine has been vastly simplified and the entire stay is usually only 24 hours, the total charge, including two instructional visits at home after delivery by nurse clinicians (but excluding the doctor's bill), is only $600, less than half the cost of a typical delivery by the conventional obstetrical route...
...have jumped 86% since 1967, but because of high inflation and high taxes, real spendable earnings have increased only 2.8%. The squeezed, middle-class homeowner often reaps little or nothing from the rise in value of his house; if he sells, he will have to buy another that probably costs even more for the same or less room. Many of the poor have been denied the opportunity to join the middle class because the cost of doing so keeps going up. The federally defined poverty line for an urban family of four has risen from...
...Joseph Califano announced some administrative measures designed to put a lid on medical inflation. Example: within 30 days, HEW will order that Medicare payments for twelve common lab tests be limited to the lowest charges widely available in a community, rather than average charges; the expectation is that high-cost hospitals will lower their charges rather than lose Medicare patients...
...participated in it, I wrote to the executive committee of The Country Club, setting forth that there was a new game called golf, stating that it had been played in Scotland for three hundred years, and that it might readily be introduced at the club; and that the cost of an experimental course need not exceed fifty dollars...