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...Medicare laws, hospitals would be reimbursed the same amount for both patients. Categorizing each patient into a single DRG may also present problems. Patients over 75, points out Gerontologist Laurence Rubenstein of U.C.L.A., "have an average of eight to ten chronic health problems." Rubenstein and others also worry lest patients be sent home prematurely, only to return under another DRG. This, he says, would cost the Government more than if patients had been thoroughly cared for during their initial stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Putting Lids on Medicare Costs | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

Carrillo might have helped these things along, but the screenwriters follow the "women should be seen and not heard" school of filmmaking. Perhaps she was hushed up lest her authentic accent draw attention to Gere's flat American tones, made all the more irritating by his self-consciously correct pronunciation throughout of the word "Paraguay...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: A Film With Plenty of Nothing | 10/7/1983 | See Source »

...international law, conventional morality, democracy and so on. Most important among these interests is that American banks and businesses be allowed to enjoy the "favorable economic climate" of U.S.-backed dictatorships, which keep wages and taxes low while providing cheap natural resources. Meanwhile the U.S. must constantly take care lest revolutionaries--fed up with the poverty, illiteracy and political terrorism under U.S.-sponsored military governments--lure these countries out of the Free World...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: Getting Tough in Gangland | 9/28/1983 | See Source »

...supporting Pinochet, Matthei claimed that "at no moment were there clashes in the neighborhoods that I visited." Almost simultaneously, retired Army General Roberto Viaux Marambio, a right-winger and hitherto firm supporter of Pinochet, issued an open protest against the government crackdown. "I do not want to keep silent lest it imply complicity," said Viaux. "The armed forces have been employed to repress the call of national protest." The signs of dissension in the military came after a week of mounting civilian pressure on Pinochet to resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile: One Carrot, Many Sticks | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

...health spas. In the past six months alone, she has appeared on 20 magazine covers. The Christie Brinkley calendar is about the only serious competition for Garfield the Cat, and Christie Brinkley's Outdoor Beauty and Fitness Book is poised to shimmy up the bestseller list. So lest a bit of open wall in a teenager's bedroom not be filled with her image, here comes a new $3 poster, her first authorized pinup, with the subject in a Norma Kamali bathing suit that not just anyone could or would wear. Next Brinkley must turn to promoting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 25, 1983 | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

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