Word: out-of-pocket
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...administration tried to eliminate $900 million from mlow-income housing funds contained in the Housing and Community Development Act. And it supported a substitute to the Catastrophic Health Care bill which would have sliced benefits in half, raised seniors' out-of-pocket expenses, and eliminated the Democratic bill's drug subsidization provisions, which would reduce the financial burden of catastrophic illness...
Shall the Commonwealth of Massachusetts urge the United States Congress to enact a national health program which: provides high quality, comprehensive, personal health care including preventive, curative and occupational health services; is universal in coverage, community controlled, rationally organized, equitably financed, with no out-of-pocket charges, is sensitive to the particular health needs of all, and is efficient in containing its cost; and whose yearly expenditure does not exceed the proportion of the Gross National Product spent on health care in the immediately preceding fiscal year...
Hill added that the survey, which he called a "quick study," was financed "completely out-of-pocket...
...there are tradeoffs as a result of this willful independence. "We've had to move the posts on the field at 7 a.m., or sometimes bribe Buildings and Grounds men with cases of beer to put down the lines, plus each player usually must spend between $150-$400 out-of-pocket money for uniform, dues, and travel expenses," explains a squad member...
Israel's out-of-pocket costs in terms of weapons and lost civilian production could rise as high as $1.5 billion. But the figure will climb sharply unless the country soon withdraws its forces from Lebanon and returns to a more normal peacetime economic footing. Rising defense outlays are expected to push Israel's inflation rate, now growing at 110% annually, up to 150% in a year...