Word: coverly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consequences. A new Medicare entitlement on the order of the Clinton-Gore-Bradley model could become a cost nightmare as boomers age and drug companies continue to crank out much coveted new drugs. But there's no guarantee that the alternatives would have enough money behind them to really cover the millions of Americans who are hurting from high drug costs. Meanwhile no one wants to see the pharmaceuticals industry, which has been full of inventions during the past decades, be stifled by government meddling...
...have less plaque in their arteries--he puts them in the context of policy. He argues, for example, that the government and private insurers could save untold billions on unnecessary heart surgery. And he doesn't stop there. "General Motors ought to be saying to every [employee] that they cover, 'If you decide you need a heart transplant, you ought to be taking vitamin E, you ought to be taking selenium,'" he said. "That ought to be part of the contract General Motors insists...
...where he beat her and sometimes pretended to hang himself. One day he ripped out the gas wall heater and flicked his lighter. Brenda survived by diving out a second-floor window. "Fire is a weird color when you're inside it," she recalls. Years later, though burn scars cover her body, medication has controlled her mental illness and she has become a part-time "life coach" at the Village. She rents her own apartment and hopes to become a writer. "I've found that it's not necessary to have a crappy life," she says. Bobby Frazier...
Cost shouldn't be a consideration. Most clinical trials are free to patients; some even pay their subjects. Insurance companies in the past have been reluctant to cover the nonexperimental part of the treatment, but they are starting to come around...
Sarandon's Adele August is running away from nothing very much--a boring small-town life and boyfriend--and she's not running toward much either--a dopey dream that life in Beverly Hills is bound to be more exciting. She is one of those irritating people who cover wrongheadedness with eccentric excess. This is supposed to be charming, but it is merely tiresome. Portman pouts prettily at Adele's all too predictable capers--naturally she forgets to pay the utility bills, misreads her daughter's dreams and that handsome orthodontist's intentions. But you can feel these beats coming...