Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Battley. The unconventional relationship had stayed very quiet, but Newt's sisters knew this was no ordinary schoolboy crush. "Jackie was someone he could talk with, who could see his visions," says Newt's sister Roberta. But Bob was adamantly opposed to a wedding. Bob had never become a doctor because he had to work long hours as a bartender to support his family while going to college. He didn't want Newt stalled with such burdens...
...hour session at which Kennedy took his notes as an innocent meeting held to turn over legal responsibility for handling Whitewater to the private lawyers. Says Clinton: "I believe that even the President ought to have a right to have a confidential conversation with his minister, his doctor, his lawyer." Republicans, however, suspect the notes may show the lawyers were planning to use confidential government information on two pending Whitewater investigations to try to hinder the probes. As the deadline neared, the White House offered a compromise, agreeing to relinquish the notes under certain conditions. But a bitterly divided Senate...
Like other post-menopausal women, Beckett had asked her doctor about hormone-replacement therapy. But she was faced with confusing responses...
...with Arizona's program, one of TennCare's greatest successes has been in mainstreaming Medicaid patients, who no longer see doctors at so-called Medicaid mills. This too was accomplished cunningly. The architects of TennCare created a controversial rule called the "cram down." A doctor who opts out of TennCare is not permitted to participate in BlueCross and BlueShield's commercial network, thereby losing a huge amount of potential business from approximately 1.2 million non-Medicaid people, including state and municipal employees and teachers. Initially, almost one-third of the doctors in the BlueCross and BlueShield network refused to join...
Such penny pinching hurts not just the special-needs patients. Mary Milburn, an 82-year-old retired seamstress who suffers from high blood pressure, was prescribed a blood-pressure medicine to which she was allergic. As a result, her doctor then prescribed a more expensive alternative medication, Accupril, but her managed-care company refused to cover the cost. Milburn, who lives on $440 a month in Social Security benefits, had to lay out about $30 a month of her own money until the company eventually relented under the threat of a lawsuit. Says Milburn: "Thirty dollars a month doesn...