Word: fee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard-related day-care centers presently have places for 79 children, at a fee of about $80 per week...
...sequences that mirror the rhyme scheme of Milton's "Paradise Lost" will be considered for a a special prize. Fill in the answer sheet below, do not leave any stray marks, and return immediately to the Educational Testing Service, Box 000, Princeton, New Jersey, with a $30 non-refundable fee and three proof-of-purchase receipts from Coop sidewalk sales...
...present itself to the students for approval and funds. Second, if a majority of students does sign this petition, both signers and non-signers of the petition still have a choice as to whether or not to support PIRG. Those students who do not desire to pay the PIRG fee of $3.00 per semester need only check off the appropriate box on their term bill worksheet (this mechanism is similar to that of the student health insurance also offered on the term bill). Third, if 50 per cent of the student body does check off this box, the local PIRG...
MOST IMPORTANTLY, our present health care system has built in wrong incentives for physicians. Most of this problem lies in the "fee for service" concept. This traditional method of reimbursement for physicians has two corruptive elements. First, a physician is able to charge for each discrete service performed, and second, the charge is determined by usual and customary fees in the community. Thus physicians, following incentives, and remembering all those tortuous days (and nights) in med school, head for the most well-to-do communities like so many bloodhounds...
...against an awesome wall of opposition. First, there is the American Medical Association (AMA) which, valuing its autonomy like a tortoise values its shell, is inclined to exert negative pressure on any proposal that would result in the decline of physicians' incomes. Needless to say, the idea of eliminating "fee for service" payment is clobbered with a hammer every time it raises its tiny head. Then there are the insurance lobbies and health industry lobbies which are opposed to cost containment legislation simply in the interest of their own profits. Local groups that see Medicaid consuming larger and larger percentages...