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...surge in costs that is hitting everyone covered by health insurance. On Jan. 1 the Medicare premiums paid by elderly and disabled Americans jumped 38.5%, from $17.90 to $24.80 a month, the largest increase since the program was started in 1966. At the same time, Blue Cross and Blue Shield premiums for federal workers rose...
Spotting a promising new line of business, hospital corporations opened so- called satellite clinics, many in residential areas. The neighborhood centers found a clientele among workers who were impressed by the convenience and availability of treatment. Says Bernard Tresnowski, president of Blue Cross and Blue Shield: "The incentives for outpatient treatment were so strong that people took advantage of them...
...miles northeast of the ski resort of Alta, the Singer clan nursed its cheerless fantasies. Founded by John Singer, an American-born TV repairman who spent his formative years in Nazi Germany, the family first ran afoul of the law when Singer pulled his children from school to shield them from the influence of drugs and racial integration. His continued defiance led in 1979 to a siege that ended when police rushed Singer while he was on a trip to his mailbox. He was shot in the back after pulling a pistol...
...sting on the rest of the nation. Who could have imagined that Iowa of all places could create a $20 million winter tourist industry? This is, after all, a state where the weather is so fierce that Des Moines had to construct a latticework of skywalks to shield shoppers from the wind chill. Here is a state that, though the highest elevation is 1,670 ft., has found a way to lure city slickers away from the ski slopes of New Hampshire. The secret, of course, is the tribal ritual known as the Iowa caucuses, that moment in presidential politics...
...bankruptcy court required Robins to conduct a media campaign to ; alert all Dalkon Shield users about its dangers. That resulted in 190,000 more claims that have to be settled. Last month Judge Robert Merhige Jr. of the U.S. District Court in Richmond ordered the company to put $2.48 billion into a trust fund to cover Dalkon Shield claims. That is not an absolute cap on what Robins will have to pay, but it represents the best estimate of the company's liability...