Word: reached
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seniors have donated $2600 to the Biko Fund. Petrovek said the amount in the fund would have to reach $25,000 before the admissions and financial aid committee could use the money...
...answers will not be simple. Oilmen disclaim any wrongdoing and insist that the problem is mainly the result of OPEC members' decision to prop up high oil prices by reducing exports. Because oil shipments from Iran take about two months to reach the U.S. market, the loss caused by the shutdown during the revolution-about 700,000 bbl. per day-did not affect American consumers until March. The American Petroleum Institute estimates that the U.S. now is short as much as 1 million bbl. of imported oil per day. Iran resumed exports in March, but this oil will...
...concern. As recently as 1965 the nation spent $38.9 billion in medical outlays of all kinds (hospital bills, physicians' fees, lab tests). That amounted to 5.9% of total spending for all goods and services. Since then the bill has increased by 429%. This year the total is expected to reach $206 billion, or 9.1% of the gross national product. The White House estimates that at the present rate of increase, medical costs will double every five years, a rise far in excess of inflation. Says Dr. Richard Corlin, president of the Los Angeles County Medical Association, with only mild hyperbole...
...true of medicine, too, in the now dimly remembered days when patients paid nearly all the bills out of their own pockets. No more: the saddest irony of the medical inflation is that it has been triggered largely by an effort to bring quality medical care within everyone's reach...
...then we learn that another doctor is being paid $65 for the same service. We then cannot ask $65 even though we may be as good or perhaps better. Blue Shield permits us to raise our prices by a small percentage from time to time, but we will never reach the maximum allowable. So the answer is to charge the insurance people well over the maximum. For a biopsy, we may put $110 on the insurance form. If the insurance company returns us $90, we know that is their maximum, and we then charge accordingly...