Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Insurance Works. Here is a specific example of how the combined Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans work. Last October, the wife of a Bronx freight handler, whose income is $2,400 a year, came down with acute appendicitis. The illness marked the first time that the family had had occasion to use its hospital insurance (held since 1943), now combined with a Blue Shield surgical plan, for premiums totaling $64.32 a year. The wife had an appendectomy and, because of complications, stayed in the hospital 24 days. For the first 21 days, Blue Cross allowed $6 a day; beyond...
Blue Shield paid the surgeon its fixed allowance of $100 for the appendectomy. The surgeon had contracted, when he signed up with Blue Shield, to give "service benefits" at its fixed rates to families with incomes of less than $2,500 a year. If the freight handler had earned more than $2,500, the surgeon could have charged more than $100, and the freight handler would have had to pay everything over...
...months after their mother's illness, both the freight handler's sons had their tonsils and adenoids out. Blue Cross and Blue Shield between them paid $141.36 for the two operations, and father did not have to lay out a penny...
...Would Benefit? Under the Ewing plan, the Bronx freight handler's premiums would be $72 a year at first, rising to $96 after the plan is widened to cover dentistry, eye care and chronic illnesses. But the freight handler would pay only half ($36 to $48) in direct payroll taxes; his employer would pay the rest...
...which the first three parts are finished. The Williams scheme in Paterson seems simple enough: let the eye rove and write down what it sees. Since the Williams eye is as unpredictable as any man's, the resulting images may be strung together like freight cars in the Erie R.R. yards at Paterson, but all in all they are pretty sharp images. On a Sunday in Paterson's park an old woman -lifts one arm holding the cymbals of her thoughts, cocks her old head and dances! raising her skirts...