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...this Vladivostok agreement that Jimmy Carter wanted to push aside in 1977 in his evangelic zeal to substitute deep cuts in missiles and warheads. But surprises are not welcome in the programmed society of the U.S.S.R. Brezhnev, sicker than ever, angrily turned down the idea. It took Carter two years more to get back to Ford's agreement. Before he rushed off to tell the world of his SALT II achievement in Vienna's Hofburg Palace, he kissed Brezhnev on both cheeks, the way they do down in Georgia--Soviet Georgia--a kiss seen round the world...
...billion windfall, buried deep in Vol. 2, lets managed-care companies continue to cherry-pick the healthiest Medicare patients, though these firms get paid as if they carry older and sicker ones. Healthier patients cost less, but this budget keeps the status quo instead of adjusting Medicare subsidies as planned...
...Researchers are particularly interested in determining which factors allow up to 30% of those who reach 100 to do so in sufficient mental and physical health: a whopping 90% of centenarians, according to Perls, remain functionally independent up to age 92. "It's not 'the older you get, the sicker you get,' but 'the older you get, the healthier you've been,'" he says. "The advantage of living to 100 is not so much how you are at 100 but how you got there...
...this effort, government at every level is complicit. The feds ship sloppy joe makings to grateful school-lunch programs--it's the cheapest grub available. Other schools contract for pizza and sodas from corporate purveyors while cutting back on phys-ed classes. And everyone starts getting fatter younger. And sicker younger--with all the attendant social and medical costs...
...database of McDonald's employees, ranking them 0 to 5 on the basis of their health problems, weighting underlying conditions and complications in a formula that calculates future health-care costs. The company's goal is to spot illness early and try to prevent the employee from getting sicker. The strategy involves "disease management," which provides employees with advice on diet and exercise and offers more intensive medical surveillance to arrest disease...