Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Damascus and to the capital of Jordan and the capital of Lebanon, or they can come to Jerusalem or we may meet at a neutral spot and let us try hard to bring peace. But if the answer is negative, and so far it has been, we must be patient. If we improve relations between Egypt and Israel, this may serve as a living example for our other neighbors...
...Community" and the universally respected model of today's supranational civil servant. When Monnet died at the age of 90 last week, in his modest country home near Paris, his dream of a United States of Europe, linked both politically and economically, remained unfinished. But Monnet was a patient man. "I'm not an optimist," he once said, "I am simply persistent," and thus he may have been pleased by the progress that had been made toward his overriding vision. Last week, at a summit meeting in Paris, leaders of the Community officially launched the long-awaited European...
...Senate last year but failed by one vote to clear a House committee. Vowing to lead a more determined fight for passage this time, the President plugged the bill at a special White House press conference last week. He cited an alarming statistic: only ten years ago, a patient paid $533 for an average stay in a hospital; the average hospitalization now costs $1,634. An HEW study found that Americans spent less than 3% of the gross national product on health care at the turn of the century, now spend 9% and, at the current rate of increase, will...
About the toughest penalty in the bill would apply to hospitals that began juggling their patient load so that they were taking in higher-paying patients at the expense of lower-paying, or began discriminating against the poor or the elderly. These hospitals would lose their eligibility to collect from Medicare and Medicaid...
...usual the public seems solidly set in its apathetic ways. Everyone has a hospital horror story, but few maintain a running interest in the issues of hospital organization and economics. For most people, serious illnesses are rare, and when they do happen insurance cushions the blow. The average patient pays only 8 per cent of his hospital bill, though this fee can still seem catastrophic. Government and consumers increasingly take on difference in costs passed on in taxes and higher-priced non-medical goods. For example, a Ford car in 1968 cost about $20 more because of employee health insurance...