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Doctors and hospitals set their own fees for the services they provided. Health-insurance companies would simply pay these fees, funneling big profits to doctors and hospitals. Academic medical centers like Duke used this money to subsidize advanced research and medical schools and to care for uninsured patients. The problem: with nothing to limit medical fees, costs doubled every five years...
When TIME set out to tell the story of what is happening, not just on the front lines but also in the backrooms of American medicine, we sought out the kind of institution best equipped to solve the insoluble problem: a world-class teaching hospital where the same urgency and intellect that is applied to saving lives is assigned nowadays to saving the institution itself. All across the country, teaching hospitals are trying to figure out how to marry progress with profits, how to come up with the money that will let them continue to lead the world in death...
Everyone is missing, or does not want to see, the real problem Starr's investigation has caused: Clinton has made the U.S. the laughingstock of the world. America's enemies now have no fear of the U.S. If I were an American citizen, I would be extremely worried when traveling abroad. DAVID F. CRADDOCK Cowplain, England...
...problem with the stock market is that it has become alienated from the real world by its own insane pace [SPECIAL REPORT, Sept. 14]. If short-term investment in stocks was made impossible, the market would cure itself of this insanity. The connection between actual company profits and stock prices now seems thin indeed, and the notion that you invest in a company to get a share of that company's profits has almost been lost. To buy shares in a company for less than a year can't possibly be deemed serious. Profits from such short-term investments ought...
...Math Problem: Bill Clinton offered Paula Jones $700,000 to settle her sexual-harassment suit. Paula recently got a nose job. If she accepts the settlement, what combination of plastic surgery and automobile can Paula afford...