Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last month, 18 inches of rain poured down on Con Thien, caving in foxholes. Continuing rains and Communist pressure last week closed the resupply route from Cam Lo-at a time when most of the CH-46 choppers used to airlift material were grounded for defective tail assemblies. The low monsoon clouds will hinder U.S. air strikes, but the rain will also cause problems for the Communists. "We'll have a better opportunity to catch the enemy on higher ground, where he has to bring his weapons and be careful where he stores his ammo," says a Marine officer...
...sooner had Hurricane Beulah stormed ashore to ravage the Texas coast than she began to perish, thrashing violently apart in the lush, low valleys of the U.S.-Mexican border. But Beulah died hard. Last week, as her final throes dumped 30-in. cloudbursts on the area, the worst floods in Texas' history came smashing down the usually somnolent Rio Grande River. From upstream Rio Grande City and Camargo down to Brownsville and Matamoros at the Gulf, south Texas and Mexico were wracked by a disaster more devastating than the hurricane...
When Congress approved Medicare and Medicaid, both proponents and opponents turned prophet. Advocates were sure that the measures would bring enormous health benefits to millions over 65, covered by Medicare, and to more millions in low-income brackets who would be covered (the states permitting) by Medicaid. Doomsayers saw in both programs socialized medicine and the welfare state at its worst; they foresaw hordes of oldsters jamming the hospitals under Medicare and greater hordes of ne'er-do-wells chiseling on Medicaid...
Medicare, Part A, has one major flaw: it provides no requirement or incentive for hospitals to cut costs. It reimburses the cost as billed, high or low. In major cities, a day in one of the better hospitals costs $80 to $90, counting not only the semiprivate-room charge, food, treatment, drugs, nursing care and laundry but all the innumerable X rays and laboratory tests now inseparable from optimal care. One possibility: allow HEW to make a long-term contract with a hospital to treat patients at a flat rate; if the hospital can cut costs without trimming services...
...York. It was left to the states to decide how much income a family not on welfare could have and still be rated as "medically needy." Oklahoma set it at a low, low $2,448 for a family of four. In most states the amount ranged between $3,000 and $4,000, with an infinite variety of limitations as to what cash, liquid assets, equity in a car, and life insurance the family might be allowed to keep. California, though it set the four-member family income limit at a median $3,900, offered an estimated 2,500,000 eligibles...