Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blue Cross has reached a milestone: more than half of Rhode Island's population is on its roster, the first state to achieve that mark. Eventually, Blue Cross hopes to have the whole U.S. enrolled...
...Paul, a onetime schoolteacher named E. A. Van Steenwyk became a rampaging apostle of voluntary hospital insurance, tried to convert everyone he met, from elevator boys to bishops. By 1936 he had bullyragged 200,000 Twin Citizens into signing up. He went on to Philadelphia, became Blue Cross's model organizer...
About the same time, in Essex County, N.J., Frank Van Dyk, ex-hospital fund raiser, solved Blue Cross's worst handicap. He persuaded all the county's hospitals to join in one group, permit subscribers to go to any hospital they chose. This is now standard Blue Cross practice...
Partial Answer. Today the bulk of Blue Cross enrollments come from big industries, some of which pay all or part of employe membership costs. Hospitals must meet minimum technical standards set by the American Hospital Association. Blue Cross's annual revenue...
...maximum of $24 a year, the average Blue Cross subscriber, or any member of his family, gets: 1) 30 days semiprivate care in the hospital; 2) an additional period (variable according to locale) at half cost; 3) all meals, including special diets; 4) operating room and anesthesia; 5) electrocardiograms, physical therapy and routine lab tests. Membership cards are honored throughout the U.S., and farther. One member recently collected a refund for an operation performed five years ago in Tokyo...