Word: patients
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...rolls, as more uninsured Americans become aware of these services and the baby-boom generation ages. This expansion will be accompanied by an increase in the very old. The population age 85 and over, 20% of whom now live in nursing homes, will rise 50% during the 1990s. A patient's annual nursing-home care can run to $35,000; a poor child's overall health-care bill, by contrast, costs Medicaid just...
HEMORRHAGING MONEY AND sparking controversy, the program was taken over by an experienced HMO administrator in 1984, and the state built a data system that tracks costs and quality of care as well as patient information. By monitoring cost-to-care ratios, the computer turned out to be an expensive but ultimately efficient secret to the program's success--but one that other states will be hard put to duplicate with fewer federal dollars. Although ahcccs' administrative costs are higher than those in states that operate under a traditional Medicaid system, Arizona is still saving money. According to a report...
...have to really be patient and wait for things," Hughes said. "And you also have to be creative...
...that owns these stations to do the very best that I can for them. And it's difficult with what is happening. CBS is like a giraffe with a sore throat: you've got a lot of sore throat." And a lot of people watching to see if the patient regains its voice...
...spoken to a deep, dark streak in the animators, so lovingly do they detail the boy's atrocities. His bedroom, a playpen for Krafft-Ebing, is a place of ominous eccentric angles (his parents stuck him in the attic) and walls papered with posters for bands like Megadork. "The patient is prepped," he declares, revealing a doll with its head in a vise. This Sid is vicious...