Word: ratio
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This may be an extreme position, but there is ample evidence that the bottom-line mentality is taking over. HMOs refer to the proportion of premiums they pay out for patient care as their "medical-loss ratio"--a chilling choice of words. The Association of American Medical Colleges reported last November that medical-loss ratios of for-profit HMOs paying a flat fee to doctors for treatment averaged only 70% of their premium revenue. The remaining 30% went for administrative expenses--and profit. Other surveys have yielded less alarming figures, and even among profit-making HMOs, there is a wide...
...What is the "medical-loss ratio" (the amount that the provider actually spends on medical care...
...Dean Fitzsimmons understands, although this continuing egalitarianism is incredibly encouraging, it should be seen as a milestone on which the College must build. 48.5 percent is great, but we aren't there yet. While we do not expect the College to admit a 50/50 ratio consistently, the College has not yet admitted a class with more than 50 percent women. We hope that the College will take this year's achievement as motivation for further outreach efforts and for continued recruitment of talented women. Gender parity will play a vital role in making Harvard an even more richly diverse academic...
...second year of randomization for Harvard first-years resulted in a surge of rising Kirkland sophomores (a record high 145) and surprisingly few Quincy admits (127). As usual, the female/male ratio for most houses reflected the 45/55 percent breakdown of the first-year class, with Mather, Adams, Winthrop and Dunster houses all receiving the largest proportions of males...
...education offered by the top schools, he argues, is much better, with more courses, bigger libraries, more sophisticated research laboratories. As a nation, he says, "we have the best educational pattern in the world...But having said that, there's no reason why we cannot have a better ratio of benefits to costs...