Word: cut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obstruction issue has softened in recent weeks. That's the main reason Starr has been unable to reach an immunity deal with Lewinsky's new lawyers, Plato Cacheris and Jake Stein. It's one thing to say an archantagonist like Lewinsky's ex-lawyer Bill Ginsburg couldn't cut a deal with Starr; but if pinstripes like Cacheris and Stein can't convince Starr that Lewinsky is offering all she knows, it would seem to put everyone in a very different dilemma...
Getting really sick is what worries most Americans. They know how hard it can be to cut through the managed-care red tape for a pair of eyeglasses or a simple ear infection. What would happen, they wonder, if they or one of their loved ones became desperately ill and needed serious--and expensive--medical attention? Who would prevail if their medical needs ran smack into gate-keepers of an HMO focused primarily on reducing costs? The horror stories coming back from the front lines are not encouraging. A sampling...
...theory, the marketplace should provide a check on health plans that cut too far; if your managed-care organization won't deliver the quality of care you need, you can always switch to one that will. But that assumes there is competition and free choice. Most employers let their workers choose from only a handful of plans. Industry consolidation, meanwhile, is reducing competition even further...
...good news is that focusing on quality pays off, as heart surgeons at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., have demonstrated. They started by surveying all their colleagues in the surrounding area and following up with their patients. Then they developed procedural standards that cut mortality from cardiac operations 24% from 1991 to 1996. Moreover, they cut costs 20% and boosted both patient and doctor satisfaction. A home run by anyone's measure...
...first requirement for being a real person, of course, is to be something other than a student. Graduate school--including law school, medical school, business school or even one of those twelve-decade doctoral programs that make being a student into a career--doesn't cut it. Neither do any of those sought-after cures that lucky people use to kill the post-college blues, like "fellowships," "internships," two-year teaching programs, nine-month work programs in Botswana or backpacking trips that follow the trail of McDonald's across the continental United States (funded, of course, by a federal grant...