Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MEDICAL care system is not well. Politicians, academics and physicians agree on that. Even controversy-shy President Bok can feel safe writing in his latest annual report that society is deeply troubled over issues like the system's cost and the dubious benefits to health of the nation's massive outlays for care. Close to ten per cent of the gross national product is now spent on medical care. Bok suggests that Harvard--specifically the Medical School--should try to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of medical care. He also says the school should seek better ways of training physicians...
...implementation of a comprehensive national health insurance plan, if the plan lacks special incentives for prepaid health plans, would halt the growth of HCHP and others. The advantage to potential members of lower total cost would be removed, and few would join for the advantages of group practice alone. The passage of a national health insurance bill would also take the lid off health expenditures in this country and leave no incentives for hospitals and physicians to avoid very costly and sophisticated equipment and techniques. The incentives to economize in plans like HCHP have proved that efficiency in health care...
...startling revelation the other day: I found out that bread crumbs cost more than bread...
...collective nightmares in the late '60s, and Didion connected by writing honestly and well about Viet Nam, runaway children and marital stress. In 1970 she and her husband, Writer John Gregory Dunne, paid $140,000 for a house at Malibu, Calif, where the sun always shines and the cost of real estate is limited only by what the next multimillionaire rock star is willing to pay. There Didion can have her bad dreams in style and gather strength for the promotional tour that is likely to make A Book of Common Prayer a bestseller this spring...
What has happened is that her apparently mild-mannered and totally acceptant husband (we never meet him) has suddenly run amuck at the chemical factory where he has been employed for years. After learning that mass layoffs are going to cost him and hundreds of his mates their jobs, he kills a supervisor and then himself. The lesson that there are no such things as safe niches in the modern world is too bitter for him to absorb...