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...Plan Bush would allow the elderly to stay in traditional fee-for-service Medicare or provide them with a fixed sum of money to pay for private insurance plans, some of which will offer a prescription-drug benefit. How much recipients pay and what benefits they receive depends on the plan they choose...
...larger opening in the Medicare market three years ago. This summer scores of HMOs announced that they are dropping their Medicare policies, leaving nearly 1 million senior citizens who had signed up for them scrambling to find coverage elsewhere, either in other HMOs or by returning to the traditional fee-for-service program. No state was as hard hit as Bush's: more than 200,000 Texas seniors--fully 60% of the total who had moved to private coverage--were abandoned by their HMOs...
...Saturday night, and the only thing between you and a movie from Blockbuster Video is the unpaid late fee for last week's rental. If that sounds familiar, then you'll appreciate this: next year Blockbuster plans to offer up to 500 movie titles online in more than a dozen major cities around the U.S. That's right, video on demand (not the frustrating no-rewind, no-pause pay-per-view offerings of today) for anyone with a DSL line at home...
Some of these schemes have already come a cropper. LobbyForMe.com sought to market the lobbying skills of 12 former House members to ordinary folk. For a small fee, these big hitters would contact your member of Congress for you. Now founder Ron Gunzburger is redesigning the page to sell ads to interest groups. And if that doesn't work, well, LobbyForMe.com also owns Politics1.com which publishes an online newsletter and provides profiles of the candidates in virtually every race...
Though Harvard will not reveal the license fee paid by DuPont, it is small in corporate terms: the University takes in a total of $15 million per year from all technology licensing, a small fraction of its budget...