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PTST, which distributes 200,000 monthly study guides to such serious TV productions as Eleanor and Franklin, Masterpiece Theater and Between the Wars, set out two years ago to transmute even the most mindless network shows into learning aids. The first piece of alchemy was making cops-and-robbers shows the cornerstone of a curriculum package. Columbo episodes serve as lessons on literary elements: dramatic character, plot development, conflict and resolution. Students taking law and criminal-justice courses use a "constitutional-awareness chart" to determine whether Baretta has illegally roughed up a suspect. Armed with their study guides, students quickly...
...larger scale, one of the most promising alternatives to the traditional medical system is group-practice health maintenance organizations, which hire doctors to work on salary rather than charging fees for specific services, and sign up hospitals to take on their patients. A customer joining an H.M.O. pays a set monthly fee?$47 for individuals, $116 for families in the Harvard Community Health Plan in Boston. That fee entitles the subscriber and his family to any medical services they may need, from a routine physical exam to open-heart surgery...
...York .Hospital: "The system is set up to pay for the most expensive means of treatment, rather than the most efficient or economical. It's crazy...
...received by hospitals from their bed patients be limited by a complex formula based on general inflation, local wage levels and each hospital's efficiency. The Government would order Blue Cross, Medicare and Medicaid not to pay a hospital more than the specified increase. Hospitals would be required to set aside part of the payments they received from private insurance companies. If these payments exceeded the prescribed limit, the hospitals would have to reimburse the insurers. If they failed to do so the Government would have the power to take al of the hospitals' "excess' revenues, plus a punitive...
...Government should revise Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement formulas to pay hospitals a set amount for, say, removal of a gallstone, rather than costs-plus. Says Dr. Mitchell Rabkin, director of Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. "I'd like to see a system of incentives?say, if we saved money, that money could be split between the insurer and the hospital." Califano and some state regulators also are launching a drive to require that a majority of the directors of any Blue Shield plan be laymen. At present, many Blue Shield plans are dominated by doctors, who, to put it delicately...