Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's compulsory plan promises unlimited health services. Organized medicine sponsors the limited liability which Blue Cross-Blue Shield has proven practical. Therefore low-cost insurance against catastrophic illness, child bearing and malignant disease is the sensible middle ground . . . THOMAS E. MATTINGLY, M.D. Washington...
Owners of out-of-state cars which were not registered with the University will no longer be able to use their anonymity as a shield for violations of the University traffic code, Charles C. Pyne, assistant to the administrative vice President, claimed yesterday...
Most of the processing work is done by remote control. The quieter isotopes can be watched through glass or plastic. The stronger ones must be watched with mirrors, as Perseus watched Medusa reflected in his polished shield. The gamma rays they send out pass right through a mirror and do not strike the worker who is watching from one side...
Both Blue Cross and Blue Shield have run into a difficulty which is inherent in voluntary plans: they have a high turnover among subscribers. Many who have no serious illness in the family for a year or two ask themselves, "Why should I pay a lot in and get nothing back?" They drop out. Blue Cross turnover has ranged as high as 25% a year. Those who dropped out were, naturally, the healthiest-from an insurance point of view, "the best risks." Those who came in were likely to be poorer risks...
Actually, the Ewing plan would not make much difference to the Blue Cross-Blue Shield subscriber, such as the Bronx freight handler, in terms of dollars. Most directly benefited by it would be millions of Americans who live in areas where no such plan is available, or who do not qualify for membership because they cannot get into a "group membership" plan, or who are not regularly employed, or who simply cannot afford the premiums. For subscribers to the Blue Cross-Blue Shield types of insurance above the income cutoff, the Ewing plan would offer an apparent saving in years...