Word: prepayments
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...would be willing to help out by making early repayment of $787 million they owe the U.S., provided that the U.S. take $187 million off that amount as credit for the estimated value of German assets seized by the U.S. in World War II. They would also agree to prepay about $350 million on current U.S. arms contracts and boost Germany's share of NATO housekeeping costs by $18 million. On paper, the total contribution came to about $1 billion, but practically all of it was money the U.S. was going to get anyway. In addition, the Germans quietly...
...insurance plans," such as the Blue Cross (hospitalization) and the Blue Shield (doctors' fees). At the Assembly they were represented by Dr. Paul R. Hawley, former medical director of the Veterans Administration. The Blue Cross and Shield, said Hawley, if properly developed and extended, can enable people to prepay their medical costs while avoiding the disadvantages of "socialized" medicine. As proof, he cited the rapid recent growth of the two plans. Together they have 37,500,000 members; Blue Shield has increased its membership 3,500% in eight years...
...obvious and partial answer to socialized medicine, Blue Cross has worked well. As memberships increased, benefits have been raised. Some chapters have added plans to prepay doctor bills as well. All that can seemingly stop Blue Cross from snowballing still more is state-controlled medicine...
...Parran's appointment. They were educated, trained and licensed to earn their living from fees which their patients paid them. Now a large part of the population can no longer afford to pay any doctor bills whatsoever. To get around that economic difficulty doctors have invented several hundred prepay and partial-pay schemes, including $10-a-year hospitalization insurance (see p. 50). Dr. Parran does not believe such systems will solve the problem of patientless doctors and doctorless patients. He wants socialized medicine, with free drugs and hospital service to every inhabitant of the U. S. who cannot afford...
...making it stick. Whereas all other Presidents have been content to let Congressional clerks read out their objections to bad measures, nothing less than the rostrum of the House of Representatives would serve him as an eminence from which to thunder his disapproval of the Patman Bill to prepay the soldier Bonus with printing press money...