Word: cures
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doubts that managed competition will cure what ails the insurers. The idea, insofar as anyone can comprehend it, is to create a new layer of bureaucracy -- health-insurance-purchasing cooperatives, or HIPCs -- which will contract with insurance companies to provide health-care plans for consumers, including the poor and unemployed. In theory, the HIPCs will force the insurance companies to compete to come up with the lowest-cost plan, which will in turn cause the insurance companies to lean on doctors and hospitals to hold down their costs. Thus, whatever else happens under managed competition, the insurance companies will cease...
...same time we witness people fighting to be treated in inner city emergency rooms. The stakes for them are a sure cure and restored quality of life. This situation is sad, unfair, and totally irrational. Rationing is its solution...
...repeated sequence of DNA, just three base pairs of the millions which make up each human chromosome. With the finding, a quicker and more inexpensive test for the devastating degenerative disease of the central nervous system, and eventually a better understanding of the disease mechanism, may lead to a cure...
Cohen said he and Society chapter presidents are hopeful that the explosion of research activity will result in a cure...
...tuberculosis in New York City had better complete the full course of drug treatment if they want to retain their freedom. Plagued by too many patients who stop taking their medication after a few weeks rather than continuing for the six months to two years needed to achieve a cure, city health officials announced they will soon begin to confine the most recalcitrant patients in hospitals and long-term facilities. Detainees will have legal protections and be released when they finish therapy. Boston and Denver have adopted similar TB quarantines...