Word: planning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...health insurance plans aimed at the poor have a basic weakness: since all their money comes from the government, any cut off in the government fiscal supply will instantly kill the plan. In addition, the "poor-only" programs may become over-specialized...
...This is the second in a two-part series. Yesterdays article told about the problems American medicine is having delivering its product to the American consumer, and about the plan Harvard Medical School has devised to help ease the strain. Today's article tells about what the plan will do in the ghetto, why John Kenneth Galbraith is on its board of directors, and why government and medical officials across the country are watching to see whether the plan can work...
...some liberal observers se the health plan, however, all these efficiencies still leave some gaps. The plan's new benefits seem to be aimed at the same middle-class consumers who now buy medical insurance through private agencies. The similarity is no accident; Pollack says that the plan was deliberately contrived to work within the existing private carriers. But some critics have charged that this plan really doesn't solve the distribution dilemma: it offers better service to America's insurance-buying suburbanites, but it seems to turn down the urban an rural who can never scrape together insurance premium...
This is where the health plan's projections for enrolling Roxury's poor become important. Tomorrow's installment will discuss how the poor will be covered at Harvard; why Pollack thinks a mixed middle-class/poor clientele is better than a program aimed only at the needy; how Harvard hopes to set a precedent for the nation; and how the Harvard Health project came into being...
...lake? Even within single sequences the shots are discontinuous: when Marie tries to drown herself, Toni running through the weeds trying to find her could be hundred miles away. This setting is not something documented but something created. You can feel its strength but not organize it into a plan. The land is unified because all of the shots have the same tremendous evocative power, because they express the same feeling...