Word: pill
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would have guessed that a little baby-blue tablet designed to restore potency to the impotent would pack such a wallop? In June, Kaiser Permanente, the giant HMO with the imperial name, announced that it had decided not to cover the cost of the $10 erection pill for its 9 million members. Just three weeks later, the little pill had become a symbol of one of the nation's hottest political issues: what HMOs do and don't pay for. Viagra's role in the debate was heightened last week when the federal agency that administers Medicaid told the states...
...NEWS ON A PAIN PILL...
...against long odds. Both achievements shine in a graceful sentence early in her story, as she explains her communion with unresponsive fish: "I had patience, the sort I suspect God has with people like me." Patience with her own demons came slowly. As a young woman, "a booze-sucking, pill-popping, dope-slamming druggie," she turned 18 in jail, jugged on a possession charge. She seems not to have known Grand-Papa Ernest well (and would say, no, no, not that Hemingway family, not me), though later she adored his younger brother, her great-uncle Leicester, and spent memorable days...
...emergencies. Fill all your prescriptions at the same pharmacy, preferably one that has a computerized system for flagging potential problems. And make sure you take only medications that are absolutely necessary. A change in diet or exercise can, in many cases, work just as well as yet another pill...
...thought that Ace might end up subsidizing a bunch of guys in gold chains and heavy cologne taking the drug for "enhancement" purposes, as one more hedge against middle-age insecurity, like Rogaine. The hospital will be weeding them out. Anyway, what they're looking for is a pill to cure rejection. Not even Ace has enough money for that...