Word: health
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members' economic interests ahead of, well, everything else in the world. In the 1960s, the AMA opposed the creation of Medicaid and Medicare, for fear that government help to the poor and elderly might slice into physician profits. In the early 1970s, one president of the AMA declared that "health care is a privilege and not a right...
...Allowed states to criminally prosecute employers accused of neglecting the health and safety of their employees. The justices, without comment, let stand a ruling in an Illinois case that federal workplace regulations do not bar such state prosecutions...
...strike began six months ago when Pittstonrefused to extend the union's contract. Since thenmanagement has denied health benefits to 1500retirees, disabled workers and widows whilerejecting several union offers of contractextensions, according...
...your Burroughs Wellcome stock." Senate staffers in Edward Kennedy's office began researching possible ways to nationalize the drug by invoking a law, dating from World War I, that allows the Government to revoke exclusive patents and licenses in the interest of national security. And the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment launched an investigation into possible "inappropriate" pricing of the drug. Burroughs' decision to cut prices last week "is a good first step," said Henry Waxman, the subcommittee's chairman. "But I think the company can do better...
This is embarrassing, but I am standing in front of 14 Carrots, the health- food store, looking at a little blue convertible and thinking, "Aw, isn't it cute?" I do not usually gurgle about cars. Like other citizens with some mileage on them, I used to love cars, maybe 30 years ago, and then I grew up. Now when a hunk of junk that cost twice the price of my first house needs new front shocks at only 120,000 miles, my feeling is bitter resentment. Americans hate their cars...