Word: prepaid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...setting for this sybaritic living was no luxury hotel, though it looked like one from the outside. It was the new Kaiser Foundation Hospital, opened last week for the 95,000 area subscribers to Henry J. Kaiser's prepaid medical and hospitalcare plan. To shy, freckled Dr. Sidney Garfield, head of the eleven-hospital Kaiser chain, the ultra-modern Los Angeles unit comes near to fulfilling a 20-year dream: the perfect hospital from the point of view of patients, visitors, nurses and doctors...
...themselves have blocked some all-inclusive insurance plans that consumers want. And in several states there is a ban on plans sponsored by consumers. . But the biggest obstacle to the growth of insurance plans is inability to pay. The main groups which the commission lists as unable to buy prepaid medical care are: those on relief, the blind, the aged, dependent children, the growing numbers now living largely on social security benefits, and those eking out a marginal living on small incomes. To provide for all these, the commission proposes...
...recent years, Littauer has tried a second plan, a sort of manna from heaven idea of asking the Government to finance some Fellowships itself. Such a proposal has firm backing in precedent. Large corporations, trade unions, and the Army have found it profitable to ship promising men here, prepaid, for a year of advanced study. Government agencies, which admit the excellence of Littauer's training program, would like to give promising recruits year of educational leave with pay. If they did, these men could study at Littauer without taking a slice in income...
...families were chosen from the 4,000 enrolled at Montefiore under the voluntary, prepaid Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York. They will pay nothing extra for the experimental service. (The Community Service Society is footing the bill.) Another group of 20 families will be chosen to serve as a control: over a five-year period, the health records of the two groups will be compared to see whether the preventive approach pays off. The sponsoring institutions will try to figure out how much the preventive program would cost subscribers on a regular basis. Says Dr. Martin Cherkasky, director...
Whenever Nevada's Senator George Malone opens his mouth for a major speech anywhere in the U.S., Denver's Post and Rocky Mountain News get long, 500-to 700-word Government-prepaid digests wired by the Senator himself. Last week the News, fed up, wired Malone: "Please include us no longer among those to receive telegrams of your speeches. We are interested in reducing waste in Government...