Word: pilgrimate
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...wide range. One managed-care plan in New Jersey spent only 59% of its premium dollars on care, while some California for-profit HMOs pay out as much as 88%. But few of the profitmakers pay out as much as the best nonprofit plans: 89% for Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 94% for Kaiser...
Although I hail from the Boston area, deemed by many to be a locus of patriotism, I have never considered myself a true patriot, despite my Yankee education and the best attempts of my teachers to imbue me with national fervor via cardboard turkeys and pilgrim hats...
...intention is to worship, whether you call it that or not. To be awakened to the miracle of existence--to experience Being not only in roses and sunsets but right now, as something not out there but in here--this is the road less traveled, the path of the pilgrim, the quest...
...certainly not calling for an explosion of school spirit--say a flamboyant angry pilgrim who jumps on the football field in the middle of The Game. If I wanted Big 10 style antics, I would have gone to the University of Michigan...
...loses the ability to do that," counters Dr. John Ludden, of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, an HMO, "but we don't." Ludden maintains that when done right, the new treatment protocols can still provide a safe haven for patients. But "the hospital psychiatrist is no longer the center of the universe," says Ludden, though even he acknowledges that "there are managed-care companies that perhaps have been overzealous in their intrusion." In some plans that make aggressive use of the "medical necessity" clause in their contracts, reports Sheehy, "we're clearly losing people we can't get in or keep...