Word: health
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...biggest exporter of metallurgical coal in the U.S., Pittston has seen the world price of its product halved (to $30 a ton) in the past seven years. To trim costs, Pittston offered its employees a $1-an-hour raise in exchange for reduced health benefits -- from 100% coverage to 80% with a deductible -- and a seven-day-a-week "flex time" work schedule. Losing their precious Sundays as well as part of their health plan was too much for the miners. On April 5 they walked...
Pittston cut off the miners' health benefits and hired "replacement workers," the new euphemism for scabs. The union is providing a limited medical plan and giving the strikers $200 a week in subsistence pay. Pittston says the men must face the facts of today's coal market; the miners argue that Pittston is "treacherously" trying to break the union...
...that money for prenatal care that may enhance the life expectancy of fetuses being carried by 150 expectant mothers? To most Americans, the either/or aspect of the question is morally repugnant -- surely the leader of the democratic capitalist world can afford both. Yet a growing number of health experts argue that the U.S., in fact, no longer has the financial resources to provide unlimited medical treatment for all those who need it. The only solution, they say, is rationing health care...
...Oregon senate passed a bill that would extend Medicaid coverage to 86,000 low-income people previously not covered. There would, however, be limits to the care they could expect. The measure, now before the lower house, would also establish a commission of experts and consumers to rank health services in order of importance; the legislature would then decide which to finance. Oregon has already set up committees of doctors, nurses and social workers to & establish priorities in four medical categories covered by Medicaid. Prenatal care, nutrition, immunizations, birth control and abortions rank high on the lists, while organ transplants...
...Alameda County, the board of supervisors last January hired a professional ethicist to assist a committee of medical experts in deciding what specific services will be made available to the county's uninsured poor. "It's scary," says Dr. Marye L. Thomas, Alameda's director of mental health and a member of the committee. "As a physician, I was trained to give the best possible care to anyone, period. Back when I was in medical school, I never thought I would be discussing this...