Word: fee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hospital horror story, but few maintain a running interest in the issues of hospital organization and economics. For most people, serious illnesses are rare, and when they do happen insurance cushions the blow. The average patient pays only 8 per cent of his hospital bill, though this fee can still seem catastrophic. Government and consumers increasingly take on difference in costs passed on in taxes and higher-priced non-medical goods. For example, a Ford car in 1968 cost about $20 more because of employee health insurance. Last year, the car would have cost $150 more for those benefits...
More than anybody else, Bloch knows the mood of Americans as the ides of April draw near. The 8,445 H. &R. Block offices and storefronts become confessionals, in which Americans pour out their complaints, fears and frustrations (for an average fee of $25) to the company's approximately 50,000 moonlighting teachers, accountants and other tax preparers...
...corporation must pay "a nominal fee to the city" for the right to seek tax-exempt status, Willis said...
Rudolph R. Russo, member of the Cambridge board of assessors, said HCHP had paid the fee, but added, "they still have yet to prove that they are tax-exempt...
OTHER POLITICAL REALITIES indicate the spectrum fee may be counterproductive. Commercial broadcasters already have voiced strong objections to the idea. When push comes to shove, the broadcasting industry--specifically the National Association of Broadcasters--is not going to sit back and "pay for its competition." At worst, a trade-off will be demanded; and at best, relations between broadcasting's public and commercial sectors will be strained...