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...Harvard Community Health Plan, the only operating pre-paid medical practice in Massachusetts, will suspend enrollment of most new members between January 2 and April 1, Robert L. Biblo, director of the plan, said yesterday...
...addition to money, Harvard provides a number of services to Cambridge residents. The Harvard Community Health Plan, a pre-paid group medical plan, has 36,000 members in greater Boston. Although now a self-sustaining, independent organization, it was conceived in the sixties by the Medical School. Harvard lent it several million dollars to get started, and all its doctors are affiliated with the Medical School...
Haase said that two new federal laws--the Health Maintenance bill for organized pre-paid health services (the Harvard Community Health Plan is an example) and the Professional Services Review Organization bill--call for expanded ambulatory care services. Haase admits that ambulatory care is not the most attractive field medicine has to offer. But the need is there, and if women are going to fill those positions in ambulatory health care, Haase said, "We need rewards for them so they don't get stale. We need to insure the stability of jobs for women, but we also need to encourage...
...understatement of his discontent. Clean silver, cool sherbet, slivers of lime and fabric of seer-sucker, ladies and gentlemen slender and adept: they learn to be the managers of their own self-introspection and self-accusation. Should they become intolerably disturbed, someone in the Mental Health Department of the pre-paid medical plan will tell them that their guilt is of neurotic origin and ought not be given opportunity to distress them. Guilt, in any case, they will be told, is not "productive." Skull of infant, blood and bone, the desperation of young mothers in the back-street clinic...
November 10: The Medical School revealed plans for a new program of pre-paid community health care. Med School planners said they hoped the plan would lead a national shift away from antiquated systems of dispensing medical care. The Harvard Community Health plan would set up a health center in nearby Roxbury and would emphasize preventative medicine as a way of keeping its patients out of the hospital...