Word: profitable
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...issue is that only affiliates (this means faculty and graduate students, basically--dining hall workers and clerical and technical workers are excluded from this category) of Harvard will be allowed to move into the units that Harvard isn't selling for high profit once current residents are forced to move out. Housing is currently open to everyone, affiliates and community alike, low and moderate income as well as faculty who can afford to pay more. Do we really want to exclude Cambridge residents from a significant portion of Cambridge housing? Do we really want to live in a community that...
...groups' and the city's proposal that Harvard and the City of Cambridge jointly fund a program which would allow all of Harvard's formerly rent-controlled housing units to be purchased at below market cost by tenants or continue as rental units owned by the city's non-profit community development corporations. And our committee's presence at the rally has nothing to do with "reciprocity," "solidarity" or the socialist movement...
...AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION is growing feverish about them. A number of physicians who have joined up have found them toxic to their employment prospects. And many patient-clients are questioning the candor of their medical guidance. They are for-profit health-management organizations (HMOs). The aggravating agent is a clause in many HMO contracts, variously described by critics as a "loyalty oath" and a "gag rule," that forbids doctors to reveal certain sorts of information, including treatment options, to anyone, including their patients. The A.M.A. House of Delegates has ruled that such restrictions "are not in the best interests...
...least one doctor has been even more outspoken about the conflict between the Hippocratic oath and the cost-controlling imperatives of the HMOs. David Himmelstein, 45, an associate professor at the Harvard Medical School and a persistent critic of for-profit HMOs, signed on a year ago with U.S. Healthcare, a $2.9 billion behemoth whose 65,000 doctors and 2.3 million members make it the largest HMO on the East Coast...
What is it that doctors are contractually bound not to tell people under their care? Most crucially, according to Himmelstein and other critics of for-profit HMOs, the dirty little secret is how their doctors' pay may go up if they limit the treatments they provide or recommend. Himmelstein charges that many HMOs "offer doctors steep financial incentives--what I consider bribes--to minimize care." In his U.S. Healthcare agreement, he says, he was promised bonuses based on a formula for keeping his patients out of hospitals; if the total number of days they spent hospitalized exceeded a fixed number...