Word: insisted
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Even if patients object to violations of their privacy, they cannot prevent them since hospitals and insurance companies commonly insist that patients sign "any and all" release forms as a precondition of treatment. These give the institutions virtually a free hand to distribute information from a patient's files. Nor do the limited restrictions that exist provide much assurance of secrecy. Information can often be ferreted out of computer memories by anyone with access to a terminal. The curious can also enter busy hospital record rooms by simply passing themselves off as doctors. Besides learning about a patient...
American skepticism about the energy shortage has two elements. First, a somewhat truculent sense of equity leads people to insist, "I will sacrifice, if necessary, but I'll be damned if I'll be the first." That leads to a paralysis of selfishness in which each citizen assumes the bad faith of all the rest...
...board's forecasts add up to a difficult political challenge for President Carter. When he enters the first of the primary elections next February, joblessness will be rising and the rate of inflation, though declining, will still be high. If the recession is mild, White House aides insist that they will not follow the usual practice of trying to expand the economy in a bid for votes. Notes Democrat Heller: "The political advantage now seems to lie more in the successful assault on inflation than it does in all-out war on unemployment...
...least as measured by its range, today TV is certainly of age. It captivates an audience that runs to a nightly third of all the men, women and children in America. Images flow out over the population to be absorbed, statisticians insist, at the appalling average rate of 29 hours per week per citizen. The cash flows in. A minute of network prime-time advertising can sell for up to $140,000, or enough to pay the salary of seven or eight high school English teachers for a whole year...
...enough to insist that new technology should be subject to rigorous cost-benefit analysis, but if a new machine costs, to be hyperbolic, $5 million, and saves one life in ten years, who is to say the price is not justified? Asks Dr. David Thompson of New York Hospital-Cornell: "If you decide to do without some product of the new technology, which one would it be? And are you willing to take the chance that it won't be available when you, the patient, need...