Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third major element of the Reagan health package is a proposal to establish a catalogue of fixed prices that Medicare will pay hospitals. Under the proposed "prospective payment" system, the Government would pay hospitals set fees for 467 "diagnosis-related groups" of illnesses, based on the average cost nationally for the procedures plus a labor differential. If a hospital spent less than the amount, it could pocket the difference; if more, it would bear the overrun. Hospitals are now reimbursed for all "reasonable" charges associated with a Medicare patient. The projected savings: $1.5 billion in fiscal 1984 and $20.4 billion...
...prospective-payment plan is the only element that does not automatically send temperatures soaring. At hearings before the Health Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee last week, expert witnesses suggested a range of adjustments in the Administration's approach, but prospects for congressional passage of this part of the package still appear reasonably good. Senate Health Sub-committee Chairman David Durenberger, a Minnesota Republican, predicts that the plan will reach the Senate floor for a vote in March...
...SHORT-SIGHTED greed-motivated demands for protectionism must be added another ugly element: xenophobia. A sign in front of a UAW headquarters reads "U.S. and Canadian vehicles only. Please park imports elsewhere." For some reason, Canadian cars (which we import in large numbers) don't count as imports, but the Japanese cars do. Mondale reflects this attitude when he asks, "What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers and spend a lifetime serving McDonald's hamburgers...
...only changes of the Quincy St. site proposed by the winners was that Lamont Library, which they deemed an "intrusive and annoying element," be demolished and a narrow, building running parallel to Quincy St. be build in its place...
Even if the short-term cash-crunch problem is solved, Deukmejian critics insist that the Governor's overall plan for escaping the crisis also contains a strong element of make-believe. The state faces a deficit of $1.5 billion in the fiscal year that ends June 30, partly because state tax collections have been held down by the recession, partly because spending has been kept high by the need to bail out local governments whose ability to levy property taxes was sharply curtailed by the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978. While Democrats have said that they would...