Word: health
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...health fears often bring windfall business, as the manufacturers of sun block and condoms can attest. This season the booming product is insect repellent. The near hysteria over tick-borne Lyme disease, along with a proliferation of other buzzing pests because of wet weather, has sent the sales of bug spray and lotion rising at double-digit rates...
...striking unions, the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, are taking a tough stand on what has become an emotional and high-stakes labor issue: medical benefits. In an era of rising health-care costs, companies are trying to shift more of the burden to employees. Workers, on the other hand, look upon their medical benefits as hard-won rights that have become essential to maintaining their standard of living. Declared picket signs last week: CUTTING OUR HEALTH BENEFITS IS SICK...
While wages have increased at an annual rate of 3.3% since 1983, corporations have seen their health-care premiums jump 10% to 15% annually, to a current average of some $3,100 a worker. Economists expect that total U.S. health-care spending will exceed $600 billion this year, nearly 12% of the U.S. gross national product, up from...
Many employers have tried to attack the problem from two angles. Hoping to get better prices for service, companies have negotiated favorable rates for their employees at certain hospitals and health-maintenance organizations. To reduce outlays further, more than 70% of companies require employees to pay at least some of the costs of insuring themselves and their families; only 51% did so in 1984. Negotiators for Bell Atlantic want the company's employees, who currently pay a $150 deductible for nonhospital medical care, to take on a $150 deductible for hospitalization and an additional $200 deductible for any treatment outside...
...fetus is a person, shouldn't states pass laws regulating pregnant mothers health? Smoking or poor eating habits could be interpreted as parental negligence...