Word: sickest
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...Well Sooner VitalSpring cuts health-care costs by managing the sickest workers...
...depends on whom you believe. Democrats like Senator Edward Kennedy say about 6 million of the poorest and sickest elderly receive better drug benefits under Medicaid, the state-administered federal program for the poor. Under the new Medicare plan, an elderly couple earning less than $16,362 will copay only $1 to $3 per prescription, and Kennedy has argued that even such a modest amount can be a burden. Ten states currently exempt their poorest seniors from paying for drugs at all. According to a report released by Kennedy's staff, these 6 million beneficiaries "will be worse off. Their...
...public health physician, Kim’s work centers on the eradication of infectious disease. In the early ’80s, he co-founded Partners in Health (PIH), an international program that brings modern medical care to the poorest and the sickest...
...Mizuho's plight is the latest indication that Japan's biggest and sickest banks might ultimately require government bailout and takeover. The day of reckoning may be approaching. New, tougher accounting rules laid down by Heizo Takenaka, Japan's reform-minded chief of the Financial Services Agency (FSA), begin to take effect on April 1. Under the guidelines, banks will be required to declare worthless many of the questionable loans listed on their books as recoverable assets. Designed to force banks to clean up their rotten lending portfolios, later reforms will also likely restrict the dubious practice of counting future...
...remaining 90%, retailing just might be the sickest of the bunch. Large-scale stores are rare in Japan, so if you go shopping, chances are good that you'll find yourself in a joint like Yoko Nakamura's general store in Kamimoku, a hot springs resort hamlet of about 800 people, an hour and a half north of Tokyo by bullet train. Nakamura, the 73-year-old granddaughter-in-law of the store's founder, runs the place with two of her sons and their wives, selling beer and liquor, cigarettes, canned goods, toiletries and candy. Her store couldn...