Word: nonprofit
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...pressure to get big--and to use that leverage against other competitors, doctors and hospitals--is spreading like a virus through the entire industry. "These giant health-care mergers are happily galloping toward an oligopoly," says Sara Nichols, Washington director of the nonprofit Physicians for a National Health Care Program. Wall Street analysts foresee a day in the not-too-distant future when the whole country's health-care needs will be largely served by a handful of providers...
...turn off the TV and read to your kids." He would abolish the Department of Education (a move he never mentioned when he was running the place) and return Medicaid, the health program for the poor and disabled, to the states. He wants welfare to be administered entirely by nonprofit community groups, with the help of a new $500 tax credit for charitable contributions...
Meanwhile, in New Hampshire, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group called the United States National Taxpayers Alliance spent $80,000 on ads attacking the Forbes flat-tax plan. Charles Givens, the get-rich-quick author, is spending half a million dollars of his own fast cash to buy TV time in New Hampshire, and possibly later in Arizona and the Dakotas, for ads that characterize the flat tax as HIGHER TAXES FOR YOU; MORE MONEY FOR FORBES, with the sound of a cash register ringing in the background. Givens has his principles, but he also bears a grudge. Forbes magazine over...
...result, across the country facilities like Sierra Tucson have been forced to reinvent themselves. In 1994 the Hartford Institute of Living, in Connecticut, merged with Hartford Hospital to avoid extinction. The nonprofit giants, the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California, and the Hazelden Foundation in Minnesota, have both increased the amount of financial aid they offer to needy patients. McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusets, a 185-year-old Harvard-affiliated facility, long ago famous as a haven for addled and addicted Brahmins, has seen its average patient stay drop from 57 days to 14 since 1989 and now fills...
...Washington Post reported Thursday that the Federal Election Commission is looking into whether the Forbes campaign received improper advances from Forbes Inc., the candidate's family firm. At the same time, questions surfaced about two of the candidate's top media advisers, Carter Wrenn and Tom Ellis, whose nonprofit group lost its tax-exempt status after failing to deliver on promises made to donors. Even as the scrutiny tightens, Forbes himself appears to be surging ahead. After a second poll in as many days showed Forbes ahead of Bob Dole in New Hampshire, TIME National Political correspondent Michael Duffy says...