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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some kind of group practice, most commonly a health-maintenance organization. Patients pay a flat annual fee in exchange for care that is provided by HMO member doctors. As private corporations, many HMOs can be quite profitable -- so long as their patients do not get too sick. The number of patients enrolled in HMOs has doubled in the past five years, to 32 million, often at the urging of cost- conscious employers. The goals: efficiency through greater competition, lower costs, accountability and better preventive care...
...consumerist attitudes is the treacherous legal reality that confronts doctors today. Anything short of perfection becomes grounds for penalty. And once again, while it is the doctor who must pay the high insurance premiums and fend off the suits in court, the patient eventually pays a price. The annual number of malpractice suits filed has doubled in the past decade and ushered in the era of defensive medicine and risk managers. No single factor has done more to distance physicians from | patients than the possibility that a patient may one day put a doctor on the witness stand...
...authorized, for example, to read the National Intelligence Daily, a compilation of intelligence reports. During a trip to Vienna earlier this year, he was allegedly videotaped handing a briefcase to a suspected Soviet agent on a city street. Bloch has been under 24-hour FBI surveillance for a number of weeks. Neighbors say that in early July they began to see men in parked cars staking out the fashionable Washington apartment building where Bloch lives with his wife and daughter...
People respond to incentives. Reward them for producing the most possible shoes, and they will produce a huge number of identical small shoes -- identical, because it's easier; small, because they can get more shoes out of a given supply of leather. The only way to produce exactly the shoes people want, or close to it, is to place the order through the free market...
...President's son puts you in the limelight," he says. "While in the limelight, you might as well sell tickets." So on a typical evening recently, while going through his personal pregame drill, he eyeballed the stands. "Looks like around 25,000 tonight," he estimated. That's the number the club needed to break 1 million in attendance, a milestone that came later in previous seasons. Later the gate was announced: 26,244. Though the Rangers < were losing a close game, the new owner beamed. "I like selling tickets," says Bush the businessman. "There are a lot of parallels between...