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...quality of care indicators are excellent," Stevens says. "They have a very select group of physicians at UHS and very good quality control...
Under the plan, all Americans will be given a health-security card, which will guarantee them a standard package of benefits. Employers will be required to offer coverage to their workers and dependents, but employees will be able to select plans offered at work as well as choose options from "health alliances" that would be formed to buy coverage for local residents. "We're trying to make it a consumer-friendly system," said an official, "with much more consumer information that is understandable...
...choice of an insider for the Yale presidency may reflect the desire of the Yale Corporation, the university's highest governing body, to select a candidate already initiated into the Yale administration, which was rocked last year by the resignations of three of the university's highest officials...
...imagine a medium that combines the switching and routing capabilities of phones with the video and information offerings of the most advanced cable systems and data banks. Instead of settling for whatever happens to be on at a particular time, you could select any item from an encyclopedic menu of offerings and have it routed directly to your television set or computer screen. A movie? Airline listings? Tomorrow's newspaper or yesterday's episode of Northern Exposure? How about a new magazine or book? A stroll through the L.L. Bean catalog? A teleconference with your boss? A video phone call...
Some of the projects seem more impressive than they are. TCI customers in the suburbs of Denver already have what looks like true video on demand. By pointing a remote control at the TV set, they can select from among 2,000 offerings (from Hook to old Marx Brothers movies to last night's MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour) and have their choices appear on screen whenever they want them, any time, day or night. But behind the high-tech service is an almost laughably low-tech delivery system. When a customer presses the Enter button, a bell goes...