Word: payments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pint for Pint. All too often, the gratitude of patient and family for what may have been a life-saving transfusion is obscured by months of wrangling with the hospital over payment, at as much as $60 a pint, or replacement, at a rate up to three pints for one. Through the new center, any member of a blood credit program or his kin can wipe out a blood debt on a straight pint-for-pint basis. For those who have to pay, the top price is estimated...
Coffey agreed with the other members of the Council that a contributory payment would likely be the most satisfactory solution...
...voluntary payment in lieu of taxes would be a better solution to the problem, said Brauneis. Harvard now pays Cambridge under this arrangement but has blocked the attempts of Boston to procure a similar payment...
Urge Voluntary Payment...
Boston mayors have tried for several years to procure a payment from Boston's tax free institutions, and have consistently been perturbed by Harvard's willingness to make voluntary payments to bridge but not Boston. Occasional meetings have been held with the heads of some of the universities, but have to date been totally fruitless...