Word: prepaid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Relman: I started out saying in principle I'm in favour of prepaid health care, but it certainly should be explored...One of the great things about this country is that we're big enough and rich enough so that we can be very pluralistic and we don't have to commit ourselves to one solution for anything. I think we ought to try a number of different approches...And if you personally don't like one way of health care, you have a number of options and the same for doctors...We may fall flat on our face...
...lyrical sequence of scorn, Kennedy accurately quoted past statements of Ronald Reagan to support the charge that the Republican candidate is "no friend" of labor ("Unemployment insurance is a prepaid vacation plan for freeloaders"), the cities ("I have included in my morning and evening prayers every day the prayer that the Federal Government not bail out New York"), the elderly (Social Security "should be made voluntary"), and the environment ("Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees...
...circ. 325,000) had been on the block for nearly a year. Religious and other special-interest groups made inquiries but were turned away as unsuitable owners; other prospective buyers were unwilling to absorb the maga zine's hefty operating losses and its liability of $3 million in prepaid subscriptions. Editor Lewis H. Lapham and two partners failed in a last-hour rescue attempt...
...might have stashed away in her modest row house. Someone guessed $35,000. Someone guessed more. There was even talk of a hoard of $45 million. None of this was true either-her only income is her monthly $247 Social Security check, and her only saving consists of a prepaid burial-but when the rumors started spreading last week, a crowd of 300 curiosity seekers gathered in front of her house. So did 100 police, on horses and in riot gear, assigned to protect the house from vandalism. Said one skeptical youth: "If there is no money in there...
Some observers are afraid that growth of prepaid legal services will lead to skyrocketing costs or abuse by some attorneys. "If you think doctors are bad, wait until you see us operate," chuckles one lawyer. There is a shortage of doctors in a number of areas, but many lawyers are underemployed...