Word: need
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been that the marriages are disreputably "Freudian," or that the husband is some sort of Lolita-chasing Humbert. As such marriages increase in visibility, however, it will probably become clear that neither reaction is necessarily just. There are obvious perils. Yet these should perhaps be balanced against the need for emotional renewals, a sense of possibility and experiment rather than mere resignation to the inevitable. A maxim has it that it is "better to be an old man's darling than become a young man's slave." At the same time, it may sometimes be better...
...medical care?again, regardless of status?are "crisis-oriented," as are most of their doctors, virtually all hospitals, and most insurance plans. Not only does this deny the nation the potential benefits of preventive medicine; it also denies the majority of patients orderly access to the care they need when they need...
Even for the well-to-do and articulate citizen, getting such care involves an obstacle course. He is, in effect, challenged to take out the right kind of insurance, probably in his 20s or 30s, and certainly years before he expects to need it. Then he is challenged to find the right doctor. For none of these choices are there any reliable buyers' guides. At successive times in his health history, three major components of care?doctors, hospitals and insurance?will be simultaneously involved...
...home, who still need some, but not 24-hour, nursing care, and who can fend for them selves in a dining room. The planners have not proved very persuasive. Hos pital administrators give lip service to the idea, but little more...
...from putting a premium on preventive medicine and the maintenance of good health, it puts a premium on sickness. Until recently, most Blue Cross plans covered no care outside a hospital, and specifically excluded diagnostic procedures. The result has been connivance to defraud the insurers. Often if a woman needs a diagnostic pelvic examination that might better?but need not necessarily?be done in a hospital, her doctor enters some meaningless diagnosis such as leucorrhea or dysmenorrhea (which practically every woman has now and then) and plunks her in the hospital for two days. The insurance pays virtually...