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...University removed Blue Cross/Blue Shield, a traditional indemnity or "freedom of choice" plan, from the faculty and staff health care menu and replaced it with HealthFlex Blue, a Blue Cross-affiliated "point-of-service" plan, and the change is still widely misunderstood. (A point-of-service plan is a hybrid between an indemnity plan and an HMO--see "Definitions" below...
...point-of-service plan is a hybrid between an indemnity plan and an HMO. Patients can choose any provider, but are encouraged to stay within a particular circle. Typically, "out-of-network" choices are discouraged with deductibles or large co-payments, while "in-network" care is covered fully or with only small co-payments. Labor Donated
...south of the park in the Teton Wilderness Area. The first scientists on the scene said it looked like a wolf, but U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service experts are putting the remains through a long and complicated series of tests to determine if the animal is a wolf-dog hybrid and whether it spent time in captivity...
...economic reform throughout the former Soviet bloc. At best, its countries probably will not and cannot become carbon copies of Western capitalist democracies. At worst, they are unlikely to revert to old-fashioned Marxism-Leninism in any form that would threaten a new cold war. But whether the hybrid political economies that do evolve represent a net gain for political and economic freedom or a descent into a kind of authoritarian chaos remains an unsettled question...
Every summer, Just A Start puts about 100 underprivileged (meaning living below the poverty level) kids to work. Though the youngest is 14 and the oldest 18, their demeanor--their existence--is already a tragic hybrid of childhood and unholy tribulations...