Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There was no way we could make a profit." Rebecca Suikia-Wilson, a Core Office staff assistant, said yesterday, "Of course we would have liked to sell more copies, but we had too short a time to judge our market," she added...
...this comprehensive overview, Starr touches on a range of issues, from the over-production of doctors in the late 19th century to the recent rise of for profit health-care corporations, a development with ominous overtones in Starr's view...
...treating each ailment. Upon admission, Medicare patients will be assigned to one of 467 newly de fined "diagnosis-related groups," or DRGs, home on the nature of their jeopardizing Each DRG carries a specific rate of reimbursement. If the hospital treats the patient for less, it can keep the profit; if it charges more, it must absorb the loss...
Perhaps the greatest concern is that hospitals that are unable to turn a profit under Medicare guidelines will shift their costs to patients covered by private insurers. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas have already headed off that possibility by establishing their own statewide prospective payment plans, to begin in January. Other private insurers are expected to follow suit...
...owner, editor and publisher of the tiny (20 employees), unprofitable Daily News, Katherine Fanning proved her mettle. She guided the paper to a 1976 Pulitzer Prize for exposing the statewide influence of the Teamsters Union and weathered a succession of financial crises before selling control, at "a modest profit," to the California-based McClatchy chain. So when Fanning left Alaska in May to take on the job of editor of the Boston-based Christian Science Monitor-making it the most prestigious top-editor post in American newspapering now held by a woman-fellow news executives predicted that she would bring...