Word: problem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pretty delicate chemistry," Lee said.Corrosion can be a problem especially in olderpipes and water mains, he said. The MWRA upped itspH from 7.8 to 9 July...
...rent and food," he says. "An extra job could be the straw that breaks the camel's back." Others fear that if the IRS rules the labor is revenue, some people may lose some of their Medicaid, food stamps or earned-income tax credit. To avoid that problem, hospital attorneys insisted that the program be voluntary. No money changes hands. A task not completed is the hospital's loss...
DICK THOMPSON, our Washington-based science and medicine correspondent, heard about a dangerous E. coli outbreak in a small town in Wyoming and immediately did what federal health sleuths do: headed for the problem's source. His on-the-scene reporting provided a vivid account of the ongoing war against lethal bacteria. Says writer Jeffrey Kluger, who worked from Thompson's dispatches: "I didn't get the sense of experiencing this story secondhand. It was really like being there." Thompson was impressed by the combination of methodology and intuition of state and federal epidemiologists: "They spent hours on the phone...
...years ago, as an accommodation to my patients who were being forced into managed care by their employers, I joined several HMOs. I struggled with the problem of denials and delays for years. Finally, at a substantial loss of income, I quit them all. I am much less busy, but my remaining patients are happier, and so am I. To pay for their competitive marketing and bloated administrative overhead, the HMOs must raise premiums. It is time to get rid of HMOs. There are 41 million people in the U.S. without health insurance. We need a national, single-payer system...
Being in an HMO has saved me more than $10,000 in the past three years. We just had a baby who cost us $10 out of pocket. We've never had a problem with quality issues or failure to pay. GEORGE EVANS Dublin...