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While hitting the elderly in the pocketbook, the Republicans hope to offer them a greater choice of medical plans, beyond traditional fee-for-service care and HMOS. Patients could direct government payments to provider-sponsored networks; or to plans created by large organizations like the AFL-CIO for their members; or to private insurance plans. In fact, if patients were to buy low-cost insurance that offered only catastrophic protection, the Republicans would allow them to bank the difference between their insurance premium and the average Medicare payment...
...report proposes allowing the University to accept shares of a firm's stock in lieu of licensing fees if the payment of such fees would be impractical...
This would normally be the case for a small start-up firm that did not have enough cash to make a payment...
Since Harvard makes some $60 million in loans every year, the measure would require a payment of $1.2 million which could otherwise be used for financial...
...seniors lobby is worried that if Medicare is turned into a cash payment or voucher, it will become indistinguishable from food stamps. It will be seen more like a welfare program, and people may start to wonder why we are financing gold-plated health-insurance welfare for the elderly, many of whom don't need it, when we do nothing for 41 million Americans--mostly workers and their families--who have no health insurance at all. The worry is reasonable. But so is the question...