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...seniors lobby is understandably skeptical on this point. Once the government's guarantee is defined as a certain amount of money rather than a certain set of benefits, that amount becomes subject to adjustment. Even if the payment starts off fully adequate, it can be allowed to drift down in value as health costs escalate...
Under the Heritage Foundation proposal, the government's annual payment would vary based on age and sex but not medical condition; Medicare-qualified insurance plans, though, would be forbidden to discriminate against sicker people. This puts much of the burden of risk pooling on private insurers. There would be a tremendous incentive for insurers to "cherry pick"--to try to sign up healthier people--as is happening in a small way now with Medicare's HMO option. Even without purposeful discrimination, healthier people will naturally drift toward the cheaper, less elaborate plans, making them cheaper still--not because of greater...
McKinny has said she and Fuhrman first met by chance at Alice's Restaurant in Los Angeles in 1985. When he learned that she was working on a screenplay about the force, he offered his help as a technical adviser who would receive payment only if the script was bought. Over the course of the next nine years, McKinny told PrimeTime Live, she would send him questions and they would then get together to discuss them. "She is the kind of person who feels she needs to live her stories," says someone who was close to McKinny." She just would...
...University will implement pension plan changes next July. The rest of the package, including a $10 co-payment for doctor's visits, will take effect in January, according to thepamphlet...
...University towns may need to start taxing the real bases of wealth in their community," Reeves said noting that while Harvard makes a $2 million "good will" payment to Cambridge each year, it would be taxed $55 million if its property were fully assessed...