Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last month Crown Prince Fahd, the de facto chief executive of Saudi Arabia's absolute monarchy, canceled a trip to Washington, ostensibly because of ill health. The Saudis had feared that the trip would coincide with U.S.-Egyptian-Israeli Foreign Minister talks at Camp David. Thus Fahd's arrival in Washington might have seemed to lend the Saudis' official sanction to the September accords, which Riyadh opposes as having been achieved at the expense of the rest of the Arab world. The continued upheaval in Iran and the growth of Soviet influence in South Yemen...
...White House press conference last week. He cited an alarming statistic: only ten years ago, a patient paid $533 for an average stay in a hospital; the average hospitalization now costs $1,634. An HEW study found that Americans spent less than 3% of the gross national product on health care at the turn of the century, now spend 9% and, at the current rate of increase, will be doling out 12%, or $1 trillion, annually by the end of the century. The cost of hospital care over the past ten years has risen more than twice as fast...
...trend, though, is toward charging. Psychiatrists long ago decided to bill all patients, including fellow doctors. Hospitals too have largely given up the practice of free care, as have many surgeons, especially since most doctors have health insurance to cover the bills. Thus, as Boston Pediatric Radiologist John Leonidas points out, "with all these third-party payers, professional courtesy is ultimately going to be obsolete anyway...
...House of Representatives restored the grants earlier in the month, but the Senate voted Wednesday to trim the grants by about 20 per cent, meaning a collective loss of about $250,000 to the Med School, the Dental School and the school of Public Health. The final answer will come after a House-Senate conference committee meets next week...
Devolution means the delegation of central government powers to other governmental bodies while Parliament retains sovereignty. In this case, Parliament would permit the formation of popularly elected Scottish assembly with the power to determine spending priorities in areas such as education, housing, health and agriculture. The Assembly would have no taxing power, but would receive a block grant from Parliament. Parliament retains authority over economic and financial policies, regional trade and international representation, and has an all-important veto over any assembly action that "threatens the national interest...