Word: fee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former parishioners of Father Dollard, we wholeheartedly support his position in establishing a compulsory church membership fee. Churches are no different from civic governments, schools, hospitals, etc. They all need money to render their services...
...Briton is a slash in social services. There will be no more free milk to schoolchildren above age seven. Subsidies for school lunches and for milk for families on welfare will also end. Prescription charges will increase from 30? to 48?. Patients who now pay only a flat $4.20 fee for any amount of dental treatment will be charged half of actual cost. Not wanting to seem entirely heartless, the Tories proposed a family income supplements bill that provides $1,872 a year for poor families with one child. That bill could move Britain toward an eventual guaranteed annual income...
...instructor, a secretary, a lawyer, a college student, and a commercial artist with a polío-crippled arm. Some of us had been attracted by the excellent reputation of the group leader, Sylvia Evans, a psychologist and therapist with the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. Some had registered (fee only $30 for the weekend) at the suggestion of their ministers or their therapists...
...support legislation limiting their liability; many urge the A.M.A. or the Government to underwrite a reinsurance pool for physicians who cannot obtain malpractice insurance from other carriers. Some suggest that the patient carry surgical-accident insurance similar to that now available to airline passengers. Almost all attack the contingent-fee system under which lawyers receive a portion, usually one-third, of any award made to the patient...
...System. Lawyers take a different position. Many argue that malpractice suits enable society to help bear the cost of human tragedy, and they support Los Angeles Attorney David Harney's contention that the medical community has a "proneness toward patient neglect and disregard." They also defend the contingent-fee system on the grounds that it enables even the poorest patient to bring his case to court...