Word: generous
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...Medicare there are more than a few places to save money. For example, the government can raise premiums, co-payments and deductibles for the middle- and upper-income beneficiaries who don't really need generous subsidies from the feds. Republicans have had the courage to call for these increases, which make sense. President Clinton has hypocritically assailed them, while his own Medicare blueprint does basically the same. But such costs for the poor or near poor can't really be raised. In fact, Medicare and Medicaid are intertwined in a way that ensures that every time Medicare premiums...
...under way. Perhaps the most ambitious state-waiver program in the nation, this managed-care system provides coverage to about 1.2 million people, or nearly one-quarter of the entire state. The breakdown: 750,000 Medicaid patients and an additional 400,000 people who were previously uninsured--a generous move that means funds are especially tight...
...Street Journal without paying for it. And on her little noticed journeys outside her apartment, she would also visit her stockbroker. When she died at age 101 last January, Scheiber had converted a $5,000 nest egg into a $22 million fortune. And in death she proved herself extravagantly generous. Last week it was announced that she had bequeathed most of her fortune to Yeshiva University, a New York City school she never attended and where no one ever knew...
...center. "The more we can try to appeal to broader audiences the better," says the highly accomplished Bachmann, whose latest album, Kiss on Wood, offers music by Aaron Copland and Alfred Schnittke--as well as a come-hither album back cover featuring (by classical music's standards) some generous cleavage. "Let's face it, people go into record stores and a lot of times buy recordings on the basis of what they see on the cover," says Bachmann...
...proposed changes in the welfare system, which is currently $46 billion in the red, have angered a populace wedded to generous cradle-to-grave social benefits. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have spilled into the streets. Leading the charge are the country's coddled public-sector workers, whose privileges include guaranteed employment, special pension benefits and early retirement--at age 50 for some categories...