Word: fee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large family size may hurt the reunion committee's financial picture, as the fee for the week is $175 a family, regardless of the number in each. The reunion costs almost $300,000; reunion assistant Caroline Head said the committee tries to break even every year...
...still aglow a few days later when the mail brought a check from the producer. It was very disappointing, so I rang him up. "Is that all I get?a lousy $290?" I asked. The producer testily explained that this was the customary fee given to all the artists who appear on the Cavett show. "That's what we paid Sir Noel Coward, Alfred Lunt and Sir John Gielgud." Well frankly," I retorted. " I don't see why people like Noel, Al, Jack and I should?" He hung...
...promote efficiency by allocating $600 million to encourage the formation of group practices. It would promote cost control by requiring health-care institutions in a given locality to negotiate and provide primary care within an annual budget and by putting doctors on a salary or paying them a fixed fee per patient...
...Merely enabling more people to pay for health care will only increase the demand for services, not the supply, thus contributing to the medical inflation that makes action necessary in the first place. Moreover, as John Krizay of the 20th Century Fund points out, the determination of doctors' fees is simply "not in the marketplace." Doctors, he notes, can and do create their own demand for their services. One way around that fact is to abandon the fee-for-service method of payment entirely and put doctors on salary; one way to accomplish that is to put health care...
Most doctors are adamantly opposed to prepayment. Many patients tend to feel otherwise. The 2,000,000 members of the Kaiser plan pay a fixed annual fee for a broad range of medical and preventive health services, all of which are provided by salaried doctors. The plan, which runs its own hospitals and clinics, keeps its costs down by early screening to diagnose diseases before they become serious, thus reducing the amount of time its members spend in expensive hospital beds. Similar prepayment plans have also proved successful in New York, Massachusetts and Michigan. But the Administration bill, which offers...