Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said it was important for younger women not to get the wrong idea--thin does not always equal healthy, and she urged women to balance fitness with the risk of developing an eating disorder like anorexia or bulimia...
...Create a social utopia, of course: a state with vast libraries, sports centers, every home wired for interactive television, cradle-to-coffin health care and unemployment benefits equal to your previous year's salary paid until...
...have any treatment he or she recommends. And even Medicare is experimenting with managed care. For more than a decade, enrollees have had the option of joining an HMO, if one is available in their area. Some 9% are currently signed up. Medicare usually pays the HMO a premium equal to 95% of its average per person costs in the area, adjusted for a few factors like age and sex. Nevertheless, Medicare loses money on the deal. Why? The main reason is that these are people who cost the system less than 95% of the average. Healthier people tend...
...that any Medicare reform will merely expand the options available to seniors and will not force them against their will into new arrangements like managed care. Whether that promise is kept depends, of course, on the cash value of the vouchers. Will it be enough to buy private insurance equal to today's Medicare benefits...
POSTHUMOUSLY INDUCTED. PAUL ROBESON, football player, actor and singer; into the College Football Hall of Fame; in South Bend, Indiana. Robeson, an All-American at Rutgers in 1917 and 1918, was for decades falsely accused of being a communist because of his liberal views and efforts to win equal rights for blacks. He died...