Word: premiums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trouble with all the early coverage, by both "the Blues" and the commercials, was that it was not health insurance, although it was widely misrepresented as such. It was, and to a great extent remains, sickness insurance. Far from putting a premium on preventive medicine and the maintenance of good health, it puts a premium on sickness. Until recently, most Blue Cross plans covered no care outside a hospital, and specifically excluded diagnostic procedures. The result has been connivance to defraud the insurers. Often if a woman needs a diagnostic pelvic examination that might better?but need not necessarily?...
...Little Giant. For all the P.M A. theatricals, Combined Insurance is efficiently run and rapidly growing. In 1967, it earned $19 million on $130-million-worth of premiums, largely by tapping a part of the market that most other insurers have overlooked. Stone developed the low-cost Little Giant health and accident policies that are sold without a medical examination or credit check, mostly to shopkeepers and employees of firms without disability income plans. For a $3 annual premium, the policy pays disability benefits of $15 a week for 15 weeks; most customers buy two or more policies. Sales...
...widely accepted speculation is that the pressures of survival put a heavy premium on the dawning intelligence of man. The first toolmaker gained an enormous survival advantage over his fellows-and may have asserted it by cornering the local supply of women. This male dominance operated to drive less intellectual males to the periphery of the troop, or tribe; it also served to transmit the toolmaker's genes to the next generation...
...keep it out of the hands of Harvard students and Faculty at large, when the most superficial examination of its contents would reveal that they included factual material necessary for an informed decision about ROTC. This kind of secrecy is intolerable in an academic community that places a premium upon rational choice based on knowledge of the relevant facts. It was not until opponents of ROTC discovered a copy, more than one month after it was released, that its contents are being publicized. Indeed, if the Faculty had been able to meet and decide on the ROTC issue...
...sell its shares to the public, mainly in Europe, but not in the U.S. or Canada. In those countries, the partners figure, it would not be worth struggling through a maze of taxes, notably the U.S.'s interest-equalization tax, which obliges Americans to pay an 18¾ premium for foreign securities...