Word: limiters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Simultaneously, though, the briefing paper speaks of "gatekeepers" who "will discourage unnecessary consumer usage" of medical care, in part by asking patients to pay more of the cost. In addition, some health plans will limit the pool of doctors from which consumers can choose. All of which sounds exactly like the kind of regimentation the people in the TIME/CNN survey object...
...plan may give states great flexibility in designing local health plans, some states could allow citizens who want to remain with their family doctor to pay a little more to do so if that physician is not signed up with the local health plan. But other states may limit the choice to the doctors in the designated health plan...
Managed health care is designed to limit costs partly by reducing excessive treatment. But a survey of seven such plans shows that they did no better than conventional plans in cutting down on the number of unnecessary hysterectomies...
What's good for society in the long run is of no immediate concern to people who use up natural resources. Given the high cost of modern fishing equipment, an individual fisherman is driven to catch every last fish rather than limit catches and ensure long-term supply. And no matter how good the plan to manage an ecosystem, some people will cheat...
...Hancock '93, and I searched around for something to build. We gave some thought to a data compression/decompression chip, but decided it would be difficult to implement one that would do a decent job, especially when we were supposed to use no more than 10,000 transistors--a generous limit, it turned...