Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decisions -- including drawing the "poor line" at 20 per cent. In each of their moves, the plan's directors are conscious of a national audience. What they are trying to build is not just a plan for treating 30,000 people in Boston. Instead, they are piecing together a model that they hope can reshape medical systems all across the country...
From the beginning, the Harvard Health Plan has deliberately tried to make itself into a model. Tapping the medical wealth of the Boston area, the plan's designers could have cut several corners and come up with special features that would work well --in Boston. In the face of that temptation, the plan's reluctance to cut corners and develop special techniques shows how seriously it takes its role as a national health-care model...
...result of the drive towards the mainstream has been a simple model of a community health care system. Not a utopia, not a complete restructuring of medical capitalism, but a practical set of instructions that other hospitals and insurance companies can follow...
...self-denying care with which the Boston planners have tried to build a national model might be pitiful if the rest of the nation paid no attention. But the relative wave of excitement that has swept through the American medical community since the Harvard plan was announced suggests that Pollack may indeed be setting a pattern for national reform...
Moviegoers who have seen Jacques Demy's The Model Shop may also be curious about a picture by his wife, who is a director too. She is known professionally as Agnès Varda, and at first glance her work and her husband's seem totally different. While he conjures up pastel never-never lands, she broods over such weighty matters as morality, predestination and the nature of reality. But husband and wife do have in com-BOULAT mon two uncommon traits: the ability to reduce everything to playground platitudes and a stylistic pomposity that serves only...